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.
JESSE JACKSONTears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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