If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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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 think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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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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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Keep hope alive!
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