Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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