There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
JESSE JACKSONIf you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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