We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

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.

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

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.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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