Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONOur 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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 must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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