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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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