I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Jesse Jackson
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Virtue alone has majesty in death. -
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. -
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. -
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? -
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
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- I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
- Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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.