It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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 wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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 solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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