Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONTears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONThese students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
JESSE JACKSONIf you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSONI hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONTo call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONLuck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSONWhen I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
JESSE JACKSONThe poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSONThe 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.
JESSE JACKSONWe must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON