Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

— Jesse Jackson

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.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Ferguson's.

— Jesse Jackson

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 attitude that will determine their altitude.

— Jesse Jackson

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. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

When caught reading the Bible W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

— Jesse Jackson

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

— Jesse Jackson

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

— Jesse Jackson