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

Jesse Jackson

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
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
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
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Change Different Result Tears Yourself
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
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
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
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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Achievement Black Equality

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

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