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.
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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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 white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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