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.
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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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In 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.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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