People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger 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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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