When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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