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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Development God Myself Patience Perfection
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSON

Destructive Fight Future See
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
JESSE JACKSON

Desire Policy Strength Time
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Help Yourself
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
JESSE JACKSON

Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Growth Home Ourselves

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