Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONI 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.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
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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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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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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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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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