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.
JESSE JACKSONI think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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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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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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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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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.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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Keep hope alive!
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