Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSONWhen 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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 only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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 began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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