It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONOur 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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 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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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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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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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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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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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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