Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONGiuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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