Quotes from Jesse Jackson

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

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

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

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.

When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black and white. We are all precious in God's sight—the real rainbow coalition.

Our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black, and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

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

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.

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.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.