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 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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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
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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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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.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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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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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
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Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
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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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People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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