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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Pain Thinking
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
JESSE JACKSON

Himself Possible
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON

Fear Hope Unity
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
JESSE JACKSON

Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSON

Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
JESSE JACKSON

Desire Policy Strength Time
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Nature Talk
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Tears Yourself
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSON

Lose Run Yourself
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Walk
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSON

Death Myself People
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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.
JESSE JACKSON

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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