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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.

Jesse Jackson

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
These 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.
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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
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
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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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Growth Home Ourselves
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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Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
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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Life Ourselves Struggle
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
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.
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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
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
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
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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Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
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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God Nation Ourselves View
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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

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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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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