Quotes from Jesse Jackson
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
— Jesse Jackson
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.
— Jesse Jackson
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
— Jesse Jackson
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
— Jesse Jackson
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
— Jesse Jackson
never look down on somebody unless you are helping them up
— Jesse Jackson
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.
— Jesse Jackson
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
— Jesse Jackson
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.
— Jesse Jackson
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
— Jesse Jackson
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
— Jesse Jackson