Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 1
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 American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 1
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 1
Some people's lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0
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 American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0
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 American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. Jesse Jackson American Civil-Rights Leader More Jesse Jackson Quotes 0