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.
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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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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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Keep hope alive!
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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