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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.

Jesse Jackson

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
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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 Limitation Oneself
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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
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
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
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Himself Possible
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
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
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
We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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Growth Home Ourselves

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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