When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONWhen 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Keep hope alive!
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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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