Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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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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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Keep hope alive!
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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