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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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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