Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Keep hope alive!
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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