You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Jesse Jackson

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

- Jesse Jackson

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.

- Jesse Jackson

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's ch…

- Jesse Jackson

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

- Jesse Jackson

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

- Jesse Jackson

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

- Jesse Jackson

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful …

- Jesse Jackson