Jesse Louis Jackson quotes

" Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. " # Leaders and Leadership # Politics # Choice

" We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. " # Funny # Confidence # Friends and Friendship

" 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.) " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Love # Speakers and Speaking

" My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. " # Politicians and Politics

" 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. " # Photography # Forgiveness # Love

" 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. " # Excellence # America # Writers and Writing