Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONDeliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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