Keep hope alive!
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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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 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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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