Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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