Jesse Jackson Quotes

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Jesse Jackson

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 8, 1941

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Jesse Jackson

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

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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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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

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Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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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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I'm too mature to be angry.

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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

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