Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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