Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

— Jesse Jackson

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

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

— Jesse Jackson

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

— Jesse Jackson

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

— Jesse Jackson

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

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

— Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

— Jesse Jackson

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

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

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

— Jesse Jackson

Burdens shared are easier to bear.

— Jesse Jackson

Where there is hope there is life, where there is life there is possibility, and where there is possibility change can occur.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson