Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

Him, Down, Anybody

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
Jesse Jackson

Help, Political, Deeper

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

Time, Long, Both

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
Jesse Jackson

Life, Health, Car

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Learning, Live

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

Down, Greatness, Measure

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
Jesse Jackson

End, Sides, Town

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

Democracy, Soul, Debate

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson

Hope, Heart, Thought

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

Soul, Flower, Nation

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Jesse Jackson

Peace, End, Justice

I'm too mature to be angry.
Jesse Jackson

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

Politics, Political, Majority

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson

Tough, Times, Desperate

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

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

Leadership, Cannot, Challenge

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
Jesse Jackson

God, End, Enough

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
Jesse Jackson

Home, Whole, Lives

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Jesse Jackson

Today, Justice, Important

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Sex, Down

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
Jesse Jackson

Pain, Reveal, Conceal

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
Jesse Jackson

Vote, White, Male

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Jesse Jackson

Small, Create, Employment

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

Live, Give, Value

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.
Jesse Jackson

Succeed, Support, Attempt

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Born: October 8, 1941

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