America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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