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.
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 say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Keep hope alive!
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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