"So much talent comes from the base of……" — Jesse Jackson
"So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent."
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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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More Base Quotes
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— Aristotle
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round…
— Scott Adams
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan…
— Kate Beckinsale
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All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
— Max Beerbohm
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Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not…
— Lewis Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority,…
— Giordano Bruno
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