From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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