Quotes By Jesse Jackson

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

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.

I remember being taught my place.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

People always grow and mature.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

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.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!