We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONWe must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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I 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.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger 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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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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