It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONHe 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.
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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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 want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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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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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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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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