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.
JESSE JACKSONNo one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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