Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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 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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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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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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