If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
JESSE JACKSONThese 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Keep hope alive!
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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 think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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