I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with...
JESSE JACKSON I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted an...
JESSE JACKSON From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation...
JESSE JACKSON My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
JESSE JACKSON Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
JESSE JACKSON When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indiffe...
JESSE JACKSON America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sa...
JESSE JACKSON We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON Your children need your presence more than your presents.
JESSE JACKSON A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSON Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenvil...
JESSE JACKSON Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning come...
JESSE JACKSON Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so gr...
JESSE JACKSON Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
JESSE JACKSON I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and s...
JESSE JACKSON If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and be...
JESSE JACKSON What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent y...
JESSE JACKSON Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...
JESSE JACKSON We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down...
JESSE JACKSON Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but goo...
JESSE JACKSON In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a d...
JESSE JACKSON Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSON Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature...
JESSE JACKSON When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-det...
JESSE JACKSON Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
JESSE JACKSON Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy...
JESSE JACKSON While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
JESSE JACKSON If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSON In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in ...
JESSE JACKSON To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...
JESSE JACKSON It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a ...
JESSE JACKSON If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if y...
JESSE JACKSON Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it an...
JESSE JACKSON At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
JESSE JACKSON We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in a...
JESSE JACKSON If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please...
JESSE JACKSON Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...
JESSE JACKSON When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault...
JESSE JACKSON There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who...
JESSE JACKSON Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dung...
JESSE JACKSON I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
JESSE JACKSON The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are ...
JESSE JACKSON The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard ...
JESSE JACKSON If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.
JESSE JACKSON So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it'...
JESSE JACKSON I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
JESSE JACKSON The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycl...
JESSE JACKSON We need a domestic version of these vehicles. Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there mu...
JESSE JACKSON We need a domestic version of these vehicles, ... Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, ther...
JESSE JACKSON The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily.
JESSE JACKSON You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They n...
JESSE JACKSON There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
JESSE JACKSON If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen,...
JESSE JACKSON Bill Bennett's remarks are morally degenerate. It's a blatant wish for genocide. What's dangerous ab...
JESSE JACKSON People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the ...
JESSE JACKSON Face it, he is embarrassed by whatever happened, however one defines inappropriate, and Hillary's ha...
JESSE JACKSON The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not...
JESSE JACKSON He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rig...
JESSE JACKSON Major Democrat Leader Calls for Murder of...
JESSE JACKSON most qualified and experienced candidate in a generation.
JESSE JACKSON When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
JESSE JACKSON rhetoric, especially if taken to their conclusion, only undermines international diplomacy and dialo...
JESSE JACKSON We're not going to have an oil war.
JESSE JACKSON Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, ...
JESSE JACKSON I hope that he will, in time, that he will say more, ... Face the Nation.
JESSE JACKSON Their sense of willingness to work to bring relief is awesome.
JESSE JACKSON You need faith when storms come suddenly, so I really talked to Hillary and Chelsea about matters of...
JESSE JACKSON at the White House after hours, talking about a range of things and having prayer.
JESSE JACKSON The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the ...
JESSE JACKSON There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.
JESSE JACKSON I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it ju...
JESSE JACKSON What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.
JESSE JACKSON I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership
JESSE JACKSON Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a...
JESSE JACKSON [In 1964, Jesse Jackson turned down a summer toll-collecting job offer from Mayor Richard J. Daley t...
JESSE JACKSON assume its position in the world’s leadership and its rightful place in the family of nations.
JESSE JACKSON Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for f...
JESSE JACKSON Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership ...
JESSE JACKSON Your light challenges the darkness, ... Your light is being seen and your heat is being felt around ...
JESSE JACKSON She sat down in order that we might stand up.
JESSE JACKSON These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to ...
JESSE JACKSON Faith lifted him above fear. The enemy can't lock up faith. The enemy can't bury faith. The enemy ca...
JESSE JACKSON My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dia...
JESSE JACKSON I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSON It was an unpopular decision to release them.
JESSE JACKSON We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line...
JESSE JACKSON We need millions more to act and react to what we saw in the gulf. Images were burned into our consc...
JESSE JACKSON Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three ...
JESSE JACKSON I don't think those messages really get through. I think people know this demonstration is about the...
JESSE JACKSON For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he wa...
JESSE JACKSON I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
JESSE JACKSON The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their ...
JESSE JACKSON These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily...
JESSE JACKSON America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the sam...
JESSE JACKSON Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSON The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of th...
JESSE JACKSON Africans in the hull of a slave ship.
JESSE JACKSON In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we al...
JESSE JACKSON You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined ...
JESSE JACKSON The displaced survivors of hurricane relief ... have been displaced again in reconstruction.
JESSE JACKSON We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up...
JESSE JACKSON “The problem is not that the (deaf) students do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world do...
JESSE JACKSON Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSON George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were d...
JESSE JACKSON We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world.....
JESSE JACKSON There's no excuse for it all and they should be dealt with immediately.
JESSE JACKSON was palpable.
JESSE JACKSON She's still struggling physically, ... She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to p...
JESSE JACKSON Some people's lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
JESSE JACKSON The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is t...
JESSE JACKSON He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality,...
JESSE JACKSON The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily,
JESSE JACKSON In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
JESSE JACKSON Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by...
JESSE JACKSON The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.
JESSE JACKSON If James Earl Ray confesses to the public that he has more information and more people, there will b...
JESSE JACKSON He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores. ...
JESSE JACKSON I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn't go back,
JESSE JACKSON This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness.
JESSE JACKSON Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.
JESSE JACKSON To kill him is a way of making politicians look tough. It does not make it right. It does not make a...
JESSE JACKSON She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for o...
JESSE JACKSON We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
JESSE JACKSON I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and bu...
JESSE JACKSON Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON Keep hope alive!
JESSE JACKSON The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small far...
JESSE JACKSON I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSON It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other
JESSE JACKSON It is racist to call American citizens refugees.
JESSE JACKSON At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
JESSE JACKSON Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, the...
JESSE JACKSON Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in ...
JESSE JACKSON All of those ideas, the politics of isolation and assassination, must give way to reconciliation and...
JESSE JACKSON Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
JESSE JACKSON Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a l...
JESSE JACKSON In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting i...
JESSE JACKSON I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
JESSE JACKSON I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
REV. JESSE JACKSON Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision i...
JESSE KELLERMAN Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained...
JESSE VENTURA I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on e...
JESSE VENTURA In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of...
JESSE VENTURA I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my mana...
JESSE MCCARTNEY I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of differen...
JESSE PLEMONS Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and d...
JESSE VENTURA Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucr...
JESSE HELMS Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
JESSE HELMS After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to t...
JESSE LIVERMORE For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way ...
JESSE JOHNSON I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in cl...
JESSE KELLERMAN Put none but Americans on guard tonight.
JESSE VENTURA Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge...
JESSE VENTURA First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one'...
JESSE BALL There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is &...
JESSE WILLIAMS Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is impr...
JESSE BROWNER Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
JESSE WILLIAMS I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupides...
JESSE ANDREWS With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.
To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. ...
JESSE HOLDEMAN One chance is all you need.
JESSE OWENS We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin...
JESSE OWENS People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The liv...
JESSE OWENS I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You c...
JESSE OWENS I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to gi...
JESSE BARFIELD The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invis...
JESSE OWENS Wrestling is ballet with violence.
JESSE VENTURA To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fel...
JESSE OWENS Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed...
JESSE SCHELL I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affilia...
JESSE VENTURA Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge a...
JESSE VENTURA I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming...
JESSE VENTURA In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public s...
JESSE WILLIAMS To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything...
JESSE BALL There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
JESSE VENTURA I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
JESSE MCCARTNEY The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he...
JESSE VENTURA Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the m...
JESSE VENTURA For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
JESSE OWENS If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
JESSE OWENS Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENS A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENS The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENS