The 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 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 JACKSONGeorge Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
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 JACKSONNo one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
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 JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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 JACKSONLuck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSONBoth tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
JESSE JACKSONIt is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONIraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
JESSE JACKSON