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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Himself Possible
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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Hands Myself Religious
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Desire Policy Strength Time
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People

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