When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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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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![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/grey-when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-fe.jpg)
![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-fe.jpg)
![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/red-when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-fe.jpg)
![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-fe.jpg)
![Jesse Jackson Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/white-when-we-were-hit-on-9-11-it-took-us-a-fe.jpg)

