Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONIf you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
More Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
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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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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
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