Quotes from Jesse Jackson

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

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.

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

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

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

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

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

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt

Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up

never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

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.