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 JACKSONWe were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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 there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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