Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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 want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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