If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible 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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