We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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 time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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If 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.
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