Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONIn 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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