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“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Running #Giving Up #Philosophical
“It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#People #Justice #Together
“It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Brother #Struggle #Meaning Of Life
“No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Self #Want #Self Destructive
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Birthday #Family #Christmas
“People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#People #Scholarship
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Sympathy #Sweat #Effort
“If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Airplane #Technology #Bully
“If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Symbolism #Substance #Vote
“Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Strong #War #Hero
“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 #Government #Goal
“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.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Iraq #America #Long
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Inspiring #Graduation #Softball
“The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Country #Iraq #People
“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.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Quilts #Native American #Gay
“The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Iraq #Occupation #Invasion
“Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Dream #Winning #Men
“We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#War #Winning #Iran
“Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Change #Sweat #Tears
“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.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Doors #Together #World
“You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Teacher #Fire #Giving
“We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Mean #Winning #Iraq
“I'm too mature to be angry.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Mature #Angry
“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.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Challenges #Together #World
“The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Inspirational #Motivational #Spiritual
“Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Opportunity #Preparation #Luck
“You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Motivational #Kindness #May
“We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Motivational #Dream #Black History
“I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Justice #Melting #Stuff
“We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
-- Jesse Jackson

#Thinking #White #Issues

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