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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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.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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 say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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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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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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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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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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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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