It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONIf you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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