Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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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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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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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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I remember being taught my place.
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Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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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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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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People always grow and mature.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.