Quotes by Jesse Jackson

About Jesse Jackson:

Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Jesse Jackson

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Jesse Jackson

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.

Jesse Jackson

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

Jesse Jackson

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Jesse Jackson

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Jesse Jackson

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Jesse Jackson

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Jesse Jackson

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested...

Jesse Jackson

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 go...

Jesse Jackson

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Jesse Jackson

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Jesse Jackson

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Jesse Jackson

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Jesse Jackson

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

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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

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Author Bio

  • NameJesse Jackson
  • DescriptionAfrican-American civil rights activist and politician
  • AliasesJesse Jackson, Sr.; Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
  • BornOctober 8, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Sportsperson; Gridiron Football Player
  • AwardsSpingarn Medal; Presidential Medal Of Freedom