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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

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

Category:
Freedom
Author
Jesse Jackson
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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

Category:
Attitude
Author
Jesse Jackson
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Other Quotes from
History
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of mans first attempts to order his view of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

Category:
History

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Category:
History

If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. – Allen Nevins

Category:
History

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

Category:
History

Random Quotes

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

Category:
Poetry

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. – Kim Nance

Category:
Crayons & Colors

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. Its equality of opportunity. Theres a fundamental difference. – Robert Reich

Category:
Equality

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable. – Gavin DeGraw

Category:
Women