Jesse Louis Jackson

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"America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	America, Men, Reading
"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."	Change
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."	Age, Darkness, Dreams
"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation." (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)"	Art, Funerals, Liberty
"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."	Patience
"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides."	Reading, Time
"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart."	Art, Forgiveness, Happiness
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."	Choice, Leadership
"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised."	Sin
"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight."	Miscellaneous
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Ability, Age, America
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."	Anger, Excellence, Greatness
"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."	Dreams, Sleeping
"Your childen need your presence more than your presents."	Miscellaneous
"Your children need your presence more than your presents."	Miscellaneous
"[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."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Attitude

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Ability	Accomplishment	Achievement
Age	America	Anger
Art	Attitude	Change
Choice	Darkness	Dreams
Excellence	Forgiveness	Funerals
Greatness	Happiness	Hope
Joy	Knowledge	Leadership
Liberty	Lies	Light
Men	Miscellaneous	Monarchy
Patience	Peace	Poetry
Reading	Religion	Sin
Sleeping	Time	Wisdom
Wishing	Women