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.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
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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 began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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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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We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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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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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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