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.
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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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