If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Keep hope alive!
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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