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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Jesse Jackson

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Character Help
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSON

Lose Run Yourself
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSON

Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Tears Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
Keep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Hope
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Philosophy Talk
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?
JESSE JACKSON

Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Desire Policy Strength Time
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Walk
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
JESSE JACKSON

Equality Himself Law Right Woman
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Black Equality
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSON

Destructive Fight Future See
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
JESSE JACKSON

Himself Possible
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

Generosity Live Value Yourself

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