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Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
I’m too mature to be angry.
JESSE JACKSON

Angry Myself One Liner
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Preparation
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Different Result Tears Yourself
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSON

Death Myself People
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSON

Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
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 JACKSON

Nation Politics Poor
Keep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Hope
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Election Politics Protection
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSON

Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSON

Life Ourselves Struggle
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON

Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Development God Myself Patience Perfection
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Tears Yourself
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSON

Education Myself People
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Existence Learning Live Togetherness World
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSON

Each Other Time Togetherness

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