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.
JESSE JACKSONI cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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