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 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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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The 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.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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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 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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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