If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSONTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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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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