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Jesse Jackson

"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."

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"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."

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Amber Hurdle

"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."

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Amber Hurdle

"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner."

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Amber Hurdle

"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot."

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Amber Hurdle

"Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument."

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Amber Hurdle

"How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."

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Amber Hurdle

"Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."

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Amber Hurdle

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

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Amber Hurdle

"They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago."

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"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."
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"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."
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"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
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"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation."
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"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."
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"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."
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"It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other."
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"A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live."
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"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."
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"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear."
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