Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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