Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Jesse Jackson

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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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Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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Attitude Oppression Violence
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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Himself Possible
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Business War Worst
Keep hope alive!
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Alive Hope
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Alive Darkness Hope Inspirational Yourself
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
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Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Fear Hope Unity
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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Kind Togetherness
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
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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Myself Time Yourself
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Animal Born Food
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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Hands Myself Religious
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Children Need Presence Present Time Yourself
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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Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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Hide Myself
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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Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Greatness Inspirational
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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Education Myself People
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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Parents Youth
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Different Nation Oneself
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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Life Ourselves Struggle
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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Attitude Help Yourself
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Change Tears Yourself

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

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