You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONYou may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Keep hope alive!
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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