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.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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