Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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