Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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