Quotes from Jesse Jackson
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.
- Jesse Jackson
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
- Jesse Jackson
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
- Jesse Jackson
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
- Jesse Jackson
Keep hope alive!
- Jesse Jackson
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
- Jesse Jackson
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
- Jesse Jackson
When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.
- Jesse Jackson
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Jesse Jackson
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
- Jesse Jackson
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
- Jesse Jackson