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Jesse Jackson Quotes

Type:
Activist Quotes
Category:
American Activist Quotes
Date of Birth:
October 8, 1941
Nationality:
American
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Jesse Jackson

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

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

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

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson

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

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Jesse Jackson

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
Jesse Jackson

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson

Keep hope alive!
Jesse Jackson

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
Jesse Jackson

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

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

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

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson


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