419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

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

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

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