It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONIf there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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 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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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