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 JACKSONIf you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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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.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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