We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSONWe must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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