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.
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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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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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