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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Jesse Jackson

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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Change Different Inspirational Result Tears
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
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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Nation Politics Poor
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
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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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
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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Himself Possible
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Black Depression Oppression
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Missing Vote Yourself
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
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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Kind Togetherness
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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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God Nation Ourselves
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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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Growth Home Ourselves
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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Equality Himself Law Right Woman
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
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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Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See

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