Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONGiuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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