Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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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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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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I remember being taught my place.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
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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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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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Keep hope alive!
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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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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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.