Quotations from a Spellbinder

One of the secrets of Jesse Jackson's success is his skill at coining catchy phrases. Some excerpts from Jackson at his quotable best:

> There is nothing wrong with our genes, but there is something wrong with our agenda.

> Both tears and sweat are wet and salty, but they render a different result.

> Tears will get you sympathy, but sweat will get you change.

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

> We need a value system that will allow us to fulfill our essential human and humane tasks --to be producers, to be providers and to be protectors.

> If we are to lift our-Jesse Jackson selves out of this morass, we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial.

> If a young man or a woman goes to any state university in this country for four years, it will cost less than $20,000. But if he or she goes to the state penitentiary for four years, it will cost slightly more than $50,000.

> We must contrast the politics of the five B's--blacks, browns, budgets, busing and balance--with the five A's --attention, attendance, atmosphere, attitude and achievement.

> Many of us allow our children to eat junk, watch junk, listen to junk, talk junk, play with junk, and then we're surprised when they come out to be social junkies.

> If we sow short-term pleasure, we will reap long-term pain. But if we sow short-term pain, we will reap long-term pleasure.

> A school system without parents at its foundation is just like a bucket with a hole in it.

> No teacher can teach in a moral vacuum. It doesn't matter how high you score on the test or how many degrees you have or how much tenure you have if you come to school as late as you can, leave as early as you can, make as much as you can, and then sit on your can.

> Parents must make room in their hearts and then in their house and then in their schedule for their children. No poor parent is too poor to do that, and no middle-class parent is too busy.

> If Johnny can't learn because he is hungry, that's the fault of poverty. But if Johnny can't pay attention because he is sleepy, that's the fault of parents.

> Children must know that it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

> You're not a man because you can make a baby. It takes a man to raise one. Girls can have a baby, but it takes a woman to raise one.

> What does it matter if we have a new book or an old book, if we open neither?

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