Jackson, Jesse quotes
1941 American Clergyman Civil Rights LeaderWe ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jackson, Jesse
Dreams
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jackson, Jesse
Children
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jackson, Jesse
Change
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jackson, Jesse
Giving
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jackson, Jesse
Modesty
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jackson, Jesse
Hope
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
Jackson, Jesse
Pride
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jackson, Jesse
Opportunity
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jackson, Jesse
Politicians and Politics
When we re unemployed, we re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it s called a depression.
Jackson, Jesse
Unemployment
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.
Jackson, Jesse
Race and Racism
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.
Jackson, Jesse
Public
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we re all precious in God s sight.
Jackson, Jesse
Diversity
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jackson, Jesse
Diversity