Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONWhen 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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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 white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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