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 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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes 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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To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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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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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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