We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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I’m too mature to be angry.
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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.
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