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.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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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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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.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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