Quote by Jesse Jackson
In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. Sh

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

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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. – Jesse Jackson

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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. – Jesse Jackson

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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future. – George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse

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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. – Robert Mugabe

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

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There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. – Georgios A. Papandreou

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