Quotes By Jesse Jackson

I remember being taught my place.

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

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

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

Fighting disparities is very significant.

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.

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.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

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

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

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

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.