Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSONWhen 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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