"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we……" — Jesse Jackson
"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through."
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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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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
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Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10…
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl…
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I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a…
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I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in…
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is…
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