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Jesse Jackson

"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."

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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

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"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."
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"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."
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"Today's 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."
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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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"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."
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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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"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation."
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"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
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"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."
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