Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONWe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
-
-
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
JESSE JACKSON -
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
JESSE JACKSON -
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSON -
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSON -
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.
JESSE JACKSON -
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON -
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSON -
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON -
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON -
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.
JESSE JACKSON -
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSON -
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON -
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON -
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON -
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.
JESSE JACKSON