We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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