You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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 you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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