Jesse Jackson Quotes

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

That’s just like America. It’s made up of lots of different people. We’re all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs — but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores — it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

No lie can live forever.

We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I’m making history.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn’t born in me.

It’ll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan’s Island.

Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

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

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.