Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 4

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

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

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

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.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.

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.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

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.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

I want to cut his nuts off.

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

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.