Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 5

Race designation is a political designation.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

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

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

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

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.