No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSONDeliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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