Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSONDeliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSONKeep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSONIt is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONA Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
JESSE JACKSONPeople like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSONI say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
JESSE JACKSONTo call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONThe white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
JESSE JACKSONIf you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSON