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.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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