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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#black #coalition #conscience #jewish #leaders

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cannot #children #deal #god #integrity

Fighting disparities is very significant. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#fighting #significant #very

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

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 great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#disenfranchised #kuwait #more #more people #people

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#between #college #defining #dies #dimension

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