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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
Jesse Jackson
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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.
Jesse Jackson
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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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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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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.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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