We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONLuck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Our 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.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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