Quotes from Jesse Jackson

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

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

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.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

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

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

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

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.