Jesse Jackson Quotes

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Jesse Jackson

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

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• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  

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• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

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• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

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• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

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• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

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  • Night
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• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

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• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

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• I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.

  

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• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

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• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

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• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

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• When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

  

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• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

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• When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

  

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• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  

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• Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

  

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• Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

  

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• In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

  

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• Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.

  

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• See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • People
  • Black
  • Faith