It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONIt is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
JESSE JACKSONA new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
JESSE JACKSONYou may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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 JACKSONIf you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
JESSE JACKSONI want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.
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 JACKSONIt is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONNever look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
JESSE JACKSONYour children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSONI think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
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 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 began to talk about one’s faith and the storm.
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 JACKSONWhen we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON