Both my parents are ever so thankful for all of the prayers, cards and calls they have received during this very trying period of their lives, we know it is a miracle that both of our parents are COVID-19 survivors, and we thank God for The Rev. Jesse Jackson healing. We also pray for the millions of people who have been infected with this virus and pray they too will also overcome.

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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

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You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

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The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

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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.

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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

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I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

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Hymies." And "Hymietown.

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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

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