Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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