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Jesse Jackson Inspirational Quotes (149)

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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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