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

Jesse Jackson

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
I 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.
JESSE JACKSON

Development God Myself Patience Perfection
We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSON

Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
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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Achievement Black Equality
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.
JESSE JACKSON

Nation Politics Poor
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 Inspirational Result Tears
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Help Yourself
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Courage Leadership Time
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON

Democracy Soul Yourself
In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
JESSE JACKSON

Difference Herself History
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON

Generosity Live Value Yourself
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
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Business Make Up Old Peace Person Woman Young
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
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSON

Fight Freedom Herself Women Empowerment
Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Acceptance Black Mindset Nation Person

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