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~ Jesse Jackson Quotes ~
« on: December 09, 2014, 11:45:21 AM »
Jesse Jackson Quotes


An American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader" with 15% of the vote.

Here are some famous quotes by Jesse Jackson. 




Keep hope alive!
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2014, 11:46:08 AM »
God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2014, 11:46:41 AM »
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2014, 11:47:11 AM »
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2014, 11:47:44 AM »
In politics an organized minority is a political majority.
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2014, 11:48:16 AM »
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2014, 11:48:46 AM »
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2014, 11:49:21 AM »
When we're unemployed we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2014, 11:49:53 AM »
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2014, 11:50:23 AM »
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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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2014, 11:51:00 AM »
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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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2014, 11:51:39 AM »
Both tears and sweat are salty but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2014, 11:52:13 AM »
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.
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2014, 11:52:54 AM »
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.
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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2014, 11:53:34 AM »
When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.
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