Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSONI hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Keep hope alive!
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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