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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Credit Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
- I Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being taught my place.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had to steal to survive.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
- Nov 07, 2020
I take my role seriously as a pastor.
- Priest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
- Nov 07, 2020
You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always grow and mature.
- Burn
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make America better!
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
- Great Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm too mature to be angry.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep hope alive!
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
- Nov 07, 2020
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020