It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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