He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
JESSE JACKSONHe has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSONIf there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
JESSE JACKSONIf you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSONIf you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
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 JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSONWe must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.
JESSE JACKSONI say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
JESSE JACKSONWe must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
JESSE JACKSONOur flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
JESSE JACKSONTears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONThere is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
JESSE JACKSON