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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

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. – Jesse Jackson

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Death
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Jesse Jackson
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. Theyre free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. – Jesse Jackson

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Freedom
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History
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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes its based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. – Alton Brown

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History

History is philosophy teaching by examples. – Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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History

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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History

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. – Mahatma Gandhi

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History

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It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. – Edward Bunyard

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Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. – From the movie Naked

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Humorous

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. – Steve Martin

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Hair

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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