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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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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then its put out in the media as true. – Jesse Jackson

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Health
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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

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Attitude
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Jesse Jackson
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they werent supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? – Jackie Kennedy

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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. – Shimon Peres

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History

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. – Martin Heidegger

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History

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy

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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. – W. H. Auden

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Politics is the art of the possible. – Otto von Bismarck

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I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and youll be very highly paid once youve got them. – James Dyson

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