When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONOur flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping 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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He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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