~ Jesse Jackson Quotes ~

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Jesse Jackson Quotes


An American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader" with 15% of the vote.

Here are some famous quotes by Jesse Jackson. 

Keep hope alive!

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God doesn't make orange juice God makes oranges.

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Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

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In politics an organized minority is a political majority.

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

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

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When we're unemployed we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

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

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Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.

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Both tears and sweat are salty but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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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.

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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.

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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.