You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONThe invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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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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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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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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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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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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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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