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.
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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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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.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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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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