If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSONWe were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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 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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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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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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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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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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