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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More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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