Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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 invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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