If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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