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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Help Yourself
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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Kind Togetherness
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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Nation Politics Poor
Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Leaving Live People Time Worth
I’m too mature to be angry.
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Angry Myself One Liner
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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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Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Lose Run Yourself
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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Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Attitude Oppression Violence
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
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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Change Different Inspirational Result Tears
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Death Myself People
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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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Give Up Inspirational Rise Yourself
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Myself Pain Thinking
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Myself Nature Talk
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Gift Presence Yourself
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
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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Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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Teaching Yourself
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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God Nation Ourselves

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