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.

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.

I think reconciliation is Obama’s goal – but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and...

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that’s under economic assault and a poor community that’s getting bigger, they’re talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri,...

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

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

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

You know, people’d always ask ‘Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?’ They never seen the house I’m running from.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

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

At the end of the day, we’re defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.

I’m not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

I want to make America better!

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and...

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that’s not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have...

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn’t enough. The absence of noise isn’t the presence of justice – and we must demand justice...

Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their...

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

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.

We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation’s capital just as well.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out....

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe’s development.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

Watch the walls come down, whether it’s in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the...

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...

People always grow and mature.

There’s a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It...

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.