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.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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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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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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 we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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