To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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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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