Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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Keep hope alive!
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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