Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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