Quotes by Jesse Jackson

“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.”

“Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.”

“If you run, you might lose. If you dont run, youre guaranteed to lose.”

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

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

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”

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

“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”

“America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.”

“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Never look down on anybody unless youre helping them up.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

God doesnt make orange juice God makes oranges.

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

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

When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said Tm looking for loopholes. The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasnt born in me.