Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

Give, Against, Fall

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.
Jesse Jackson

Patience, God, Best

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.
Jesse Jackson

Dreams, Government, Free

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.
Jesse Jackson

Hope, Attitude, Today

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

Hope, Fear, Forward

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

Change, Sympathy, Different

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

Good, Men, Death

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

Mind, Heart, Achieve

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

Depression, Lazy, Unemployed

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

America, Color, Thread

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

Leadership, Job, Together

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

Birthday, Children, Presence

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

Dreams, Memories, Stronger

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.
Jesse Jackson

Heart, Lost, Joy

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.
Jesse Jackson

Money, Death, Two

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

Leadership, Change, Time

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson

Greed, Sacrifice, America

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.
Jesse Jackson

Law, Big, Dream

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

Someone, Law, Else

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

Drunk, Through, Sure

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.
Jesse Jackson

History, Down, Before

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Jesse Jackson

Music, Arts, Inclusive

Keep hope alive!
Jesse Jackson

Hope, Keep, Alive

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

Great, Happen, Jesus

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.
Jesse Jackson

Liar, Saying, Him

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Born: October 8, 1941

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