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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.

Jesse Jackson

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
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
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
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
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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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Ourselves
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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Achievement Black Equality
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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Leadership Myself Path
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 Inspirational Result Tears
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
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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Myself Time Yourself
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
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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Teaching Yourself
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
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
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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God Nation Ourselves
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
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself

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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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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