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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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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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