Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONIf you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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 you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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 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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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