Quotes By Jesse Jackson

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

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

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.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

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.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

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

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

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

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.