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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Change Courage Leadership Time
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Inspirational Responsible Yourself
I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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Leadership Myself Path
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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Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Attitude Character Help
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
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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Change Different Result Tears Yourself
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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Development God Myself Patience Perfection
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
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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Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Challenge Leadership Moral
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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Destructive Fight Future See
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
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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Difference Herself History

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