We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONWe began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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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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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 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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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