Quotes By Jesse Jackson

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

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

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

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

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

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.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

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

I am a journalist.

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.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I want to make America better!

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

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.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.