Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jesse Jackson (American Baptist Civil Rights Activist)

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (b.1941) is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000.

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Drunkenness, Opportunity

No one rises to low expectations.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Excellence

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Dreams

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Attitude, Animals, Kindness, Helping, Pride, Helpfulness

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Work, Racism, Unemployment

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Change

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Dreams

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black and white—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Time

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Justice

Your children need your presence more than presents.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Children, Parents

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Morning, Hope

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.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Public

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.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: America

God doesn’t make orange juice; God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson

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

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.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Drugs

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Giving, Charity

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Challenges

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Heart

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Dreams

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites—rather than fighting for jobs or education—fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Racism, Race

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jesse Jackson
Topics: Politics, Politicians

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