Jesse Jackson
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.Collection: Equality
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.Collection: Dreams
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.Collection: Dreams
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Collection: Birthday
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.Collection: Best
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.Collection: Courage
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.Collection: Car
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.Collection: Death
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.Collection: Anger
I'm too mature to be angry.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Attitude
Keep hope alive!Collection: Hope
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.Collection: Sad
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.Collection: Failure
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.Collection: Fear
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.Collection: Health
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.Collection: Leadership
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.Collection: Sympathy
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.Collection: Leadership
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Forgiveness
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.Collection: Politics
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
I am a journalist.
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.