You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSON
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.
![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-few-weeks-to-683x1024.jpg)
