To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONWe began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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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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