We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONA Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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