When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONI know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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