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 Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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