The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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

I am a journalist.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Negroes’ problem is that they do not have their egos. That’s why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God’s word, so he have to...

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

If you don’t know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis,...

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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...

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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

I’m too mature to be angry.

I had to steal to survive.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain’t no hospital going to lock him out.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to make America better!

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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