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.
JESSE JACKSONIt is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Keep hope alive!
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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