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

Other quotes by Jesse Jackson

For me, Barack Obamas election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. – Jesse Jackson

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Hope
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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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Dreams
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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. – Jesse Jackson

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Death
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Other Quotes from
History
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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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History

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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History

An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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History

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. – Jean Chretien

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History

Random Quotes

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. – Daphne du Maurier

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Women

Learn a new language and get a new soul. – Czech Proverb

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Language

Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it. – Author Unknown

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Swimming

Im just an old hippie. You know, peace and love. – Sherman Hemsley

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Peace