Jesse Jackson Quotes

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

I'm too mature to be angry.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

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.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

No lie can live forever.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

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.

Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

The crown jewel of Dr. King's movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

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

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

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

I want to make America better!

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

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

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

If I can make it, you can make it.

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

People always grow and mature.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.