People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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