"If the states had to vote on slavery,……" — Jesse Jackson
"If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote."
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191 Quotes by Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson has 191 quotes on this site.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original…
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many…
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and…
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We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of…
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early…
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your…
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the…
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses…
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning…
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
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