Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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