No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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