Jesse Jackson Quotes

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• His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in…
• When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes,…
• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's…
• We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
• God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
• Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
• I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day.…
• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more…
• has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
• The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
• Surrender had played out for good with me.
• You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream…
• We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
• Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
• A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
• Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

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