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 JACKSONAt the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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