Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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I want to make America better!
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
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You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
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There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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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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People always grow and mature.