We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
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A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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