The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
JESSE JACKSONA check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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