It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONA new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them 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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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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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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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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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