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

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

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

- 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

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

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

- Jesse Jackson

I'm too mature to be angry.

I'm too mature to be angry.

- 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

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

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

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