Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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