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.
JESSE JACKSONThe invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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 know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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