The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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