Search quotes by author:    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 


Jesse Jackson Quotes


Keep hope alive!

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

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

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

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

Your children need your presence more than your presents.