In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.


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For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way ...
JESSE JOHNSON
I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in cl...
JESSE KELLERMAN
Put none but Americans on guard tonight.
JESSE VENTURA
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge...
JESSE VENTURA
First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one'...
JESSE BALL
There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is &...
JESSE WILLIAMS
Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is impr...
JESSE BROWNER
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
JESSE WILLIAMS
I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupides...
JESSE ANDREWS
With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.
To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. ...
JESSE HOLDEMAN
One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENS
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin...
JESSE OWENS
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The liv...
JESSE OWENS
I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You c...
JESSE OWENS
I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to gi...
JESSE BARFIELD
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invis...
JESSE OWENS
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
JESSE VENTURA
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fel...
JESSE OWENS
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed...
JESSE SCHELL
I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affilia...
JESSE VENTURA
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...
JESSE VENTURA
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE
Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming...
JESSE VENTURA
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG
I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public s...
JESSE WILLIAMS
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything...
JESSE BALL
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
JESSE VENTURA
I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
JESSE MCCARTNEY
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he...
JESSE VENTURA
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the m...
JESSE VENTURA
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
JESSE OWENS
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
JESSE OWENS
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENS
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENS
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENS