Quotes from Jesse Jackson
People always grow and mature.
- Jesse Jackson
I take my role seriously as a pastor.
- Jesse Jackson
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
- Jesse Jackson
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
- Jesse Jackson
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.
- Jesse Jackson
The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
- Jesse Jackson
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
- Jesse Jackson
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
- Jesse Jackson
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
- Jesse Jackson
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
- Jesse Jackson
I want to cut his nuts off.
- Jesse Jackson
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
- Jesse Jackson