Top Quotes of Jesse Jackson
- “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson
- “No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.” – Jesse Jackson
- “Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.” – Jesse Jackson
- “Fighting disparities is very significant.” – Jesse Jackson
- “Capitalism without capital is just an ism” – Jesse Jackson
Top Quotes of Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson Quotes about Character
Jesse Jackson’s Quotes on Children and Dreams
Fighting and Justice Quotes of Jesse Jackson
Quotes about Leadership and Life by Jesse Jackson
Motivational Quotes of Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson Quotes about Character
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
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
Jesse Jackson’s Quotes on Children and Dreams
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
While I’ve spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it’s not been enough.
Jesse Jackson
There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
Jesse Jackson
We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.
Jesse Jackson
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
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don’t stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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
Fighting and Justice Quotes of Jesse Jackson
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
Jesse Jackson
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
Jesse Jackson
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
Jesse Jackson
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
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it’s considered a depression.
Jesse Jackson
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Jesse Jackson
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
Jesse Jackson
Quotes about Leadership and Life by Jesse Jackson
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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 anybody unless you’re helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson
Motivational Quotes of Jesse Jackson
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Jesse Jackson
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
Jesse Jackson
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up
Jesse Jackson
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson