If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSONHe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Keep hope alive!
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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