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Jesse Jackson

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
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
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
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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Kind Togetherness
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
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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Nation Politics Poor
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

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