419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

It must be unequivocally clear that such a heinous act is not desirable nor designed nor planned. We must use power to reduce tensions, reduce the rhetoric of our threats.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.