"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There……" — Jesse Jackson
"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
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Jesse Jackson
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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 Black History Quotes
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one of 124 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain…
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel…
— Richard Allen
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