I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSONI hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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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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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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