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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

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We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. – Jesse Jackson

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Home
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, its uniform color versus skin color. We have – weve overcome that level of racial fear. – Jesse Jackson

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Fear
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Todays 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. – Jesse Jackson

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. – Ambrose Bierce

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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. – William Hague

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The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on. – Novak Djokovic

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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. – Condoleezza Rice

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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. – Erik H. Erikson

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The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. – Maxwell Maltz

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Let me go to hell, thats all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. – Samuel Beckett

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Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one. – Fred G. Gosman

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