To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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