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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.

Jesse Jackson

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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God Nation Ourselves
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
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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Kind Togetherness
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
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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Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
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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Achievement Black Equality
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Desire Policy Strength Time
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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Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
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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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself

We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.

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