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Jesse Jackson
American
Activist
About the author
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Being
#Fight
#Americans
#Race
#Media
#Care
#Health
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Death
#Man
#Men
#Justice
#Reality
#Deeds
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Heart
#Mind
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.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Heart
#Joy
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
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,
American
Activist
#History
#Order
Keep hope alive!
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Hope
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Time
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Democracy
#Soul
#Debate
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Majority
#Politics
#Minority
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
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,
American
Activist
#Time
#Now
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,
American
Activist
#God
#Public
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#State
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Day
#Challenge
#Leadership
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Will
#Value
#Credit
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Job
#Leadership
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Will
#Result
#Change
#Sympathy
#Tears
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Hope
#Day
#Fear
#End
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#America
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#People
#Soul
#Body
#Nation
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Greatness
#Measure
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Dreams
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Open
#Opportunity
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Depression
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Children
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Time
#Leaders
#Change
#Courage
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Fear
#Today
#Conversation
#Skin
#University
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Dreams
#Memories
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,
American
Activist
#Right
#Dreams
#Government
#Surrender
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.
Jesse Jackson,
American
Activist
#Hope
#Will
#Today
#Students
#Attitude