Jesse Jackson

“I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.”

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”

“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.”

“At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.”

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

“Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.”

“America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.”

“Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.”

“The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.”

“We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.”

“I remember being taught my place.”

“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.”

“We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.”

“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.”

“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”

“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.”

“It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.”

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

“I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.”

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