Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONYour children need your presence more than your presents.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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 invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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