Jesse Jackson Quotes
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To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
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We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
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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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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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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.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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People always grow and mature.
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I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.