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.
JESSE JACKSONOur 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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