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Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
American Activist
Born: Oct 8, 1941
Black Me People Time Will You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. Jesse Jackson
Never Give Up You Surrender Never Surrender Fall Odds Faster Run Rise Give Never Up Behind Against
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. Jesse Jackson
Today Attitude Hope Achieve Will Dope Believe Aptitude Must Determine Students Put Veins Conceive Know Altitude Brains
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
You Change Result Tears Will Sympathy Both Render Salty Get Different Sweat
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. Jesse Jackson
Heart Achieve Mind Believe Conceive Know
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. Jesse Jackson
You Will Value Live Gucci Give Bag Check Anything Credit Card Credit Card
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. Jesse Jackson
Good Capitalism Walls Sex Down Markets Find Morally More Economic Economic Growth Talent Come Stunt South Discrimination Wall Wall Street America Whether Which Race Capital Means Street Growth Right Watch
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. Jesse Jackson
Life Buy Health Car College Kids Out Diploma Life Insurance Come Know House Health Insurance Insurance How Many Credit Card Credit Card Basic
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons. Jesse Jackson
Justice Injustice Together Fight Equality Black White Community Way Must Brown More Only Allow Red Invites Inequality Ferguson Yellow Stand Your Avoid
I'm too mature to be angry. Jesse Jackson
Angry Anger Too Mature
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. Jesse Jackson
Government Wealth Opportunities Focus Way Sector Jobs Able Fair Most Democratic Private Were Been Private Sector Behave Getting Where Preoccupied
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. Jesse Jackson
Democracy You Soul Debate Our Way Deliberation Stir
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. Jesse Jackson
Dreams Government You Surrender Fly Free Negotiate High Must Never No-One Limit Legislature Should Your Your Dreams Agree Right
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. Jesse Jackson
Good Together Learning World Challenge Live Lesson Must New New Challenge Learn How New World
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. Jesse Jackson
You Too Much Poverty Too Those Miss Talent Limit Much Base Margins
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. Jesse Jackson
Dreams Memories Stronger Our Our Dreams Must Pushed Than Pulled
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. Jesse Jackson
Politics Freedom Free Press Those Unaccountable Write Simply Columns Name Impose Cultural Who
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. Jesse Jackson
Time Quality Enough Spent Perhaps Quality Time Been Lot Children While
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. Jesse Jackson
Depression Lazy Unemployed Whites
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. Jesse Jackson
Work Love Today People Long First Before Gave Out Obama Embracing Percent Blacks Supporting Voted First Love First People Him Were His Unemployment American Expensive Number
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly. Jesse Jackson
Life Stars Out Quickly Burn Many Bright
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. Jesse Jackson
Thread Woven Color Blanket America Cloth
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. Jesse Jackson
Day Leadership Challenge Meet Moral Must Along Go Get Just Cannot
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. Jesse Jackson
Today Conversation Fear Overcome Skin Color New Georgia Versus Uniform Racial Skin Color Tech Level Here Plays University
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. Jesse Jackson
Pain Our Conceal Joys Reveal Successes
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. Jesse Jackson
People Abortion Desperate Tough Rate Economic Economic Times Up Times Goes Things
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs. Jesse Jackson
Political Penetrate Always Than Help Appeals Deeper Humanitarian
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