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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.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

Jesse Jackson

I am a journalist.

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We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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People always grow and mature.

Jesse Jackson

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

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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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The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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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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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

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Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

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

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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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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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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

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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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Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

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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.

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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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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We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

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

Jesse Jackson