Jesse Jackson Quotes

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

By Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

By Jesse Jackson

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

By Jesse Jackson

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

By Jesse Jackson

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.

By Jesse Jackson

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

By Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents

By Jesse Jackson

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.

By Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

By Jesse Jackson

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

By Jesse Jackson

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

By Jesse Jackson

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread

By Jesse Jackson

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever

By 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.

By Jesse Jackson

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

By Jesse Jackson