Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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