You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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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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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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Keep hope alive!
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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