Jesse Jackson Quotes

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Jesse Jackson

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 8, 1941

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

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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.

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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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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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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

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Keep hope alive!

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

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