You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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