1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson – [Giving]
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson – [Diversity]
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson – [Change]
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson – [Modesty]
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson – [Hope]
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson – [Public]
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jesse Jackson – [Politicians and Politics]
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
Jesse Jackson – [Pride]
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Jackson – [Diversity]
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites — rather than fighting for jobs or education — fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.
Jesse Jackson – [Race and Racism]
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson – [Dreams]
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson – [Opportunity]
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson – [Unemployment]
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson – [Children]