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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

Children Gift Presence Yourself
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSON

Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Desire Policy Strength Time
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Responsible Yourself
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
JESSE JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Nature Talk
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
JESSE JACKSON

Hide Myself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON

Greatness Inspirational

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