We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSONOur dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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He 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.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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.
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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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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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