Jesse Jackson quotes
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.