It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONGiuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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He 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.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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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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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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