#he

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#bag #card #check #credit #credit card

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#defined #end #end of the day #our #predicament

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#america #barack #before #beginning #day

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#dead #foreign #george #george bush #heads

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#concerns #doctors #gained #greater #had

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. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#conversation #fear #georgia #here #level

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #inheritance #inheritance-cycle #inspirational #life

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#children #first #most #property #their