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"35 Jesse Jackson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 October 1941 | Activist | Politician | Clergyman |

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Politics Organised Minority Majority
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

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

Leadership Job Choose Sides
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Measure Greatness Mansion Manger
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Children Need Presence Presents
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Keep hope alive!

Keep Hope Alive
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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.

Servant Best Serve Patient
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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.

Negotiate Dreams Free Limit
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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.

Justice Death Reality Live forever
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Deliberation Debate Soul Democracy
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Great things Happen Jesus Born
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Never Look down Anybody Helping
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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.

Opportunity Sure Drunk Indifferent
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Anything Value Give Live
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Leadership Get along Moral Challenge
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Go foward Hope Fear Division
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Focus Love Lifestyle Energy
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

I Born Slum
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Time Turn Each other
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Mind Heart Believe Achieve
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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.

Learn Lesson Live together World
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Reveal Joys Successes Pain
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Law Protects Abused Lifestyle
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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Success Explanation Failure Matters
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Tough Economic Desperate People
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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.

Man Enticed Money Death
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Great Responsibility Today Poor
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Give up Surrunder Rise up Odds
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Excel Hard work Intellect Risk
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

Young Inspired Sacrifice Greed
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

You Know Tomorrow Need
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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Life Dimensions Mysterious
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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

Tears Sweat Sympathy Change
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Time Courage Leaders Change
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Removed Ceiling Dreams Impossible
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Jesse Jackson Quotes & Sayings