Quotes By Jesse Jackson

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

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

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

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

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

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

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

Keep hope alive!

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

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

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

I remember being taught my place.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

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

Fighting disparities is very significant.

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

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

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.

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

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

People always grow and mature.

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

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.