When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONIt is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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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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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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