Jesse Jackson Quotes

» Keep hope alive!

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

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

» 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.

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

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

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

» 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.

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

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

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

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

» In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

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

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

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

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

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

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

» When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

» Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

» 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.

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