Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONIf there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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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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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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