Jesse Jackson quote: "The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent."

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 him up.
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

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

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

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