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Jesse Jackson

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
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Death People Time
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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Difference Herself History
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Desire Policy Strength Time
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
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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Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
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
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Myself Time Yourself
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
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
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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Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
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
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible 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

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