Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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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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 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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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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