No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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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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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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Keep hope alive!
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