He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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