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From Quotes by Jesse Jackson
- We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New…
- The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed…
- We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that…
- Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of…
- We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark…
- We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
- America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
- The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
- From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
- So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
- The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
- You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
- People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways,…
- In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct…
- The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be…
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