I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSONIraq 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Keep hope alive!
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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