The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSONThere is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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.
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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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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