Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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.

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.

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

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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.