» America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
» Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
» Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
» Your children need your presence more than your presents.
» We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
» A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
» Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
» 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.
» My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.