It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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 want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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