A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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 say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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