Some people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
JESSE JACKSONSome people’s lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
JESSE JACKSONTears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSONAmerica is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
JESSE JACKSONIn tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSONYou cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
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 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 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 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 JACKSONYou may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONIf my mind can conceive it, 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 JACKSONIt is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSONOur dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON