Jesse Jackson Quotes

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  If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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  Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Strong, Pain

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

  Jesse Jackson

  Thinking, White, Issues

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• You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Kindness, May

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspiring, Graduation, Softball

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

  Jesse Jackson

  Life, Turns

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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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sympathy, Sweat, Effort

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Hope, Morning

  "African-American preaching and its influence on US politics". "Religion and Ethics Report" with Andrew West on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. October 24, 2012.

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Teach, Knows

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

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• If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

  Jesse Jackson

  Words Of Wisdom, Trying, May

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• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

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  Dream, Memories, Political

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• At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

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  Fear, The End Of The Day, Division

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

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  Morning, Next, Fruit

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• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Native American, Gay

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• When everyone is included, everyone wins.

  Jesse Jackson

  Winning, Inclusion

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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.

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  Men, Reality, Kind Deeds

  "Jesse Jackson: A Candid Conversation with the Civil Rights Leader". Interview With Arthur Kretchmer, playboysfw.kinja.com. February 24, 2014.

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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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Two, Jail

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Believe, Dope

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• The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

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  Inspiring, Looks, Helping

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• Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!

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  Dream, Winning, Men

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Change, Sympathy, Sweat

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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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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  Achievement, Black History, Glory

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• Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

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  Motivational, Children, Night

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