Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONIn tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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 is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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 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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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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