Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

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.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

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.

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

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

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

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

That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

I'm too mature to be angry.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

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

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

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

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

There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

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

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

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