Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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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 you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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