Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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 know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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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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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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We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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 began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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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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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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