Author: Jesse Jackson

Quotes

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

- Jesse Jackson

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

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

- Jesse Jackson

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

- Jesse Jackson

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

- Jesse Jackson

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

- Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

- Jesse Jackson

I'm too mature to be angry.

I'm too mature to be angry.

- Jesse Jackson

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

- Jesse Jackson

In 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.

In 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 Jackson

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