No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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 hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
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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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The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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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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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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These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
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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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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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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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Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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