Quotes from Jesse Jackson

Fighting disparities is very significant.

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.

There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

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

I am a journalist.

Keep hope alive!

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

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

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

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

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

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

When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.