You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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 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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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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