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.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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 wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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