Quotes By Jesse Jackson

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

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

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

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

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.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

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

I am a journalist.

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.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I want to make America better!

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

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.