Quotes from Jesse Jackson

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

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

Quand nous sommes au chômage, nous sommes traités de paresseux ; quand les Blancs sont au chômage, ça s'appelle une dépression

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

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 is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

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

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

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

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.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

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

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

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

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

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.