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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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 my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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