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.
JESSE JACKSONIn 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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