At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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