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You Must Never Stop Dreaming. Face Reality, Yes. But Don't Stop With The Way Things Are; Dream Of Things As They Ought To Be. Dream Of Peace. Peace Is Rational And Reasonable. War Is Irrational In This Age And Unwinnable.

-Jesse Jackson

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You Must Never Stop

Jesse Jackson

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You Must Never Stop Dreaming. Face Reality, Yes. But Don't Stop With The Way Things Are; Dream Of Things As They Ought To Be. Dream Of Peace. Peace Is Rational And Reasonable. War Is Irrational In This Age And Unwinnable.

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We Are Organising Our Enemies Into A Formidable Force, We Are The Us Public Has Turned Against The War, The Republicans And Democrats Have Turned Against The War. And So When The American Public Turns Against The War And The Congress Turns Against The War, It Suggests That Americans Feel We Cannot Win That War In Those Conditions. So The Iraqi Commission Says, "well, We Can't Win This War Militarily, We Need To Reassess Potential Allies." There's Syria, There's Iran.

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If Whites Would Vote Their Economic Interests, Not Their Racial Fears, We The People Who Have The Most Need For Change Have The Power To Bring About That Change Nonviolently.

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The Only Justification We Have To Look Down On Someone Is Because We Are About To Pick Him Up.

The Crown Jewel Of Dr. King`s Movement Was To Protect The Right To Vote For All Citizens.

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We Reveal Our Joys And Successes, We Conceal Our Pain.

We Must Not Measure Greatness From The Mansion Down, But From The Manger Up. Jesus Said That We Should Not Be Judged By The Bark We Wear But By The Fruit That We Bear. Jesus Said That We Must Measure Greatness By How We Treat The Least Of These.

His Foreparents Came To America In Immigrant Ships. My Foreparents Came To America In Slave Ships. But Whatever The Original Ships, We Are Both In The Same Boat Tonight.

That's Just Like America. It's Made Up Of Lots Of Different People. We're All Different Colors, Different Ages, We Do Different Jobs -- But It Takes All Of Us Black People, White People, Brown People, Men And Women, Young And Old, Working In The Factories, Working In The Fields, Working In Offices, Working In Stores -- It Takes A Lot Of Different Kinds Of People To Get The Job Done For America.

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Choose The Human Race Over The Nuclear Race. Bury The Weapons And Don't Burn The People.

I Had To Steal To Survive.

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I Hear That Melting Pot Stuff A Lot, And All I Can Say Is That We Haven't Melted.

If You Run, You Might Lose. If You Don't Run, You're Guaranteed To Lose.

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