It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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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.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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