I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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