From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSONNo one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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