Jesse Louis Jackson

(15 votes)   Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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(111 votes)   Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

Jesse Jackson
1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

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(105 votes)   Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

Jesse Jackson
1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

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(94 votes)   I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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(83 votes)   Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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(67 votes)   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.

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(52 votes)   Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

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(35 votes)   My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jesse Jackson
1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

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(32 votes)   Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

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

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(25 votes)   From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

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(23 votes)   A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

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(23 votes)   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.

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(22 votes)   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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(18 votes)   It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

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