Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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