Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONOur 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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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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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