When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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 you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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 invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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