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.
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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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 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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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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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