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Jesse Jackson Quotes

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.

Jesse Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1941

Topics

History Walls Stand Up Stand Down

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

Steve Kazee

Silence Deep Think Moments You Big

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Stephen Curry

Road Being Exciting Just Trip East

Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.

Sophie Turner

I Am Always Mine Been Like Ham

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

Tracy Morgan

Men I Am Me Problem Doing Young

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

Mike May

Age Mind Blind Three Been Since

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Joseph Brodsky

Funny Me Race Human Human Race Who

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare

God Face You Make Given Another

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

Wilson Mizner

People Most Half-Baked

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

Pete Rose

Baseball Doing Pretty Well Been

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

Sebastian Thrun

People Year Traffic More Accidents

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

Tim Cook

Great Focus Apple Great Things Know

The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.

Mark Foster

Life Loved My Life Doing Artist Top