Abbas Ibrahim > Abbas's Quotes

“never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up”
― Jesse Jackson

“Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up”
― Jesse Jackson

“A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.”
― Jesse Jackson

“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”
― Jesse Jackson

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”
― Jesse Jackson

“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson

“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”
― Kofi Annan

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
― Kofi Annan

“The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful”
― Kofi Annan

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”
― Kofi Annan, Where on Earth Are We Going?

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom