Jesse Jackson

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• Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

  • Politics

• Keep hope alive!

  Address to the Democratic National Convention (July 19, 1988)

  • Hope

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

  • Leadership

All 14 quotes from Jesse Jackson

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy