Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONIt’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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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 has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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 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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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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