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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.

Jesse Jackson

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
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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Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch

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