If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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