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America
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America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
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Change
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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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Charity
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
-Jesse Jackson
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Children
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
-Jesse Jackson
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Diversity
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Dreams
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Hope
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Humility
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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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Opportunity
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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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Politics
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
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Pride
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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Public
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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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Racism
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Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.
-Jesse Jackson
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Work
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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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Books by and about Jesse Jackson