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.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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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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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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