You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Jesse JacksonIn many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
Jesse JacksonThere have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
Jesse JacksonThose powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
Jesse Jackson