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.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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