If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSONThe solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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