We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSONWe must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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 JACKSONGeorge Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSONI cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONThe solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
JESSE JACKSONWe began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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 JACKSONA check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
JESSE JACKSONThe invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
JESSE JACKSONIf you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSONPeople like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSONI want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
JESSE JACKSON