Jesse Jackson Quotes

Your light challenges the darkness, ... Your light is being seen and your heat is being felt around the world. Thank you, Cindy Sheehan. - Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

You need faith when storms come suddenly, so I really talked to Hillary and Chelsea about matters of faith and unconditional love. - Jesse Jackson

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate. - Jesse Jackson

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from. - Jesse Jackson

You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda. - Jesse Jackson

You can be against the war and win re-election now. You can be against the war and get elected, ... We have Republicans who are starting to turn on Bush. That was not true a year ago, before Cindy Sheehan and before Katrina. - Jesse Jackson

Yesterday, when a new president came in, the wind shifted. For many of us, it shifted from a tail wind to a head wind, so much of what we fought for ... will be challenged now. Our mandate is to go forward. - Jesse Jackson

Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership and trapped into the suffering? - Jesse Jackson

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. - Jesse Jackson

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