Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONIf you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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