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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's un...

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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They'...

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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and be...

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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and s...

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Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning come...

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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we al...

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but goo...

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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in a...

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but...

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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Drea...

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To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...

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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please...

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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...

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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by...

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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a h...

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God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature...

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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industr...

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Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes...

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I'm too mature to be angry.

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Jesse Jackson

Activist

Born: 1941-10-08

Died: N/A

The Reverend Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born Jesse Louis Burns; October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH.More