Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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Keep hope alive!
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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