Jesse Jackson Quotes

Jesse Jackson (130)

Birth:	8th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

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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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

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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.

  Jesse Jackson

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• If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Confidence, Motivational

  Tags in Imagination, Courage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legislature, Free, Their, Government, Surrender, Your, Agree, Right, High, Must, Negotiate, Never, Should, Fly, Limit

• Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Injustice

• We want to do more than see them and take the messages from their relatives from who we have talked. We want to gain their freedom.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Time

• Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

  Jesse Jackson

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

  Jesse Jackson

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

  Jesse Jackson

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• God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action

• I have nothing to do with our soldiers being there, … do something to help get them out.

  Jesse Jackson

• My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

  Jesse Jackson

• I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn’t go back.

  Jesse Jackson

• The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana’s political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state – this is a rainbow state.

  Jesse Jackson

• He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores. Where Mayor Daley saw a toll collector, Mr. Johnson saw a communicator.

  Jesse Jackson

• If James Earl Ray confesses to the public that he has more information and more people, there will be a trial.

  Jesse Jackson

• The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.

  Jesse Jackson

• The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

  Jesse Jackson