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 JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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