Jesse Jackson Short Quotes

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We are shifting from burn baby burn, to learn baby learn.

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Tears will get you sympathy, but sweat will get you change.

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We say that we may be in the slum, but the slum is not in us.

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You can't plant the seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

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The genius of America is that out of the many, we become one.

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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

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A cheque or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

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

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised.

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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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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

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We need a regime change in this country.… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

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That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

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My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

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Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white, we are all precious in God's sight!

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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

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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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If you wake up in the morning and think you're white, you're bound to meet someone before five o'clock who will let you know you are just another nigger.

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When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black, and white. We are all precious in God's sight—the real rainbow coalition.

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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

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We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

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Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

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