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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Keep hope alive!
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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