American - Activist | October 8, 1941 -
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.
Jesse Jackson
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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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 know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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