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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

Generosity Live Value Yourself
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Walk
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSON

Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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?
JESSE JACKSON

Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON

Death People Time
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSON

Missing Vote Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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 JACKSON

Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Tears Yourself
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSON

Life Ourselves Struggle
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.

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