If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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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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