It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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