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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.
Jesse Jackson

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

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

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
Jesse Jackson

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

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

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

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

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson

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