Jesse Jackson Quotes
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
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There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem.
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I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw talent, the ability to learn it and do it and demonstrate the ability is helpful.
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I think the No. 1 thing that helps me get through every single day is the support of my friends and my family.
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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
