No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSONNo one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSONWe began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSONWe’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSONTo call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
JESSE JACKSONYou cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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 JACKSONJust because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
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 JACKSONI know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSONIt is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONTears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONHold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONWe want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
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 JACKSON