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.
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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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 wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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 you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible 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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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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