Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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