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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
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
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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
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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Nation Politics Poor
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
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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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
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
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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Teaching Yourself
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 Inspirational Limitation Right

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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