It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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 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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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