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.
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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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