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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson

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.
JESSE JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON

Fear Hope Unity
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Inspirational Limitation Right
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Different Result Tears Yourself
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

Generosity Live Value Yourself
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
I’m too mature to be angry.
JESSE JACKSON

Angry Myself One Liner
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious
If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSON

Missing Vote Yourself
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSON

Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Time Yourself
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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Nation Politics Poor

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