Jesse Jackson Quotes

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• No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You…
• Your children need your presence more than your presents.
• Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it.…
• Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
• If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
• A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
• A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone…
• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
• America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
• Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
• 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…
• When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
• 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:…
• It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
• 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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