When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONA check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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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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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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