Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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