black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jesse Jackson

We began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
JESSE JACKSON

Beginning Faith Oneself Storm Talk
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON

Fear Hope Unity
I 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 JACKSON

Myself Time Yourself
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth
When 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 JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious
No 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 JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSON

Death Myself People
We 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 JACKSON

Growth Home Ourselves
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
The 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 JACKSON

Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
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 JACKSON

Equality Himself Law Right Woman
You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.
JESSE JACKSON

Teaching Yourself
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes.
JESSE JACKSON

Hide Myself
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSON

Anger Development Discipline Expression Fundamental Ourselves Willing
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSON

Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
The 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

Nation Politics Poor
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
JESSE JACKSON

Himself Possible
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON

Deep Job Leadership Togetherness
If 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 JACKSON

Forgiveness Heart Joy Lost Myself
When 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 JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Opportunity Walk
Keep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSON

Alive Hope
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Choice Cry Inspirational Leadership Yourself
Our 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 JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves View

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jesse Jackson Quotes