Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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