“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.”
Learning
“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”
ChangeAll Quotes by 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.”
Death“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.”
Dreams“For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.”
Hope“Keep hope alive!”
Hope“People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.”
Home“In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.”
History“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”
Politics“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
Leadership“Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.”
Music“On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.”
Change“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.”
Change“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
Leadership“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
Fear“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.”
Death“We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.”
Government“Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.”
Car“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.”
Failure“In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.”
Home“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.”
Freedom