When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Keep hope alive!
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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 want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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