You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONI think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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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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A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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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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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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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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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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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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