You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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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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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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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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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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