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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

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Ourselves
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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
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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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
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
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Generosity Live Value Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
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
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
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.
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Difference Herself History
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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Change Different Result Tears Yourself
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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Growth Home Ourselves
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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Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

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