Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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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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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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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