In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSONIn 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick 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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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