Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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People always grow and mature.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I remember being taught my place.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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Keep hope alive!
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
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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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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.