When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONI think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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 burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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