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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Myself Philosophy Talk
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Each Other Time Togetherness
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
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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God Nation Ourselves View
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
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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Inspirational Opportunity Walk
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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Difference Herself History
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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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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