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 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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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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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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