M. Jackson Quotes

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.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.