Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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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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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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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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