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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.

Jesse Jackson

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
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
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
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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Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
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
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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Difference Herself History
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
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
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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Hands Myself Religious
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
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself

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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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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