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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.

Jesse Jackson

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Oppression Violence
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
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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Myself Time Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
When 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.
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Hands Myself Religious
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Democracy Soul Yourself
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Challenge Election Politics Protection
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
JESSE JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
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.
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Achievement Black Equality
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Help Yourself
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Inspirational Opportunity Walk

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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