Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
JESSE JACKSONIt’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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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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 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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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