The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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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.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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