I’m too mature to be angry.
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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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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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.
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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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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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