Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONHe should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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 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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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