You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONI know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Keep hope alive!
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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