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America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)
—Jesse Louis Jackson
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.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
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.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
—Jesse Louis Jackson
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
—Jesse Louis Jackson