Logo
Quote by Jesse Jackson
For me, Barack Obamas election was a milestone of the most extraor

For me, Barack Obamas 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 new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. – Jesse Jackson

Other quotes by Jesse Jackson

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 was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment. – Jesse Jackson

Category:
sad
Author
Jesse Jackson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Hope
category

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Hope

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway – maybe a musical, maybe my own show. – Katherine Jenkins

Category:
Hope

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. – John Dryden

Category:
Hope

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one. – Marco Rubio

Category:
Hope

Random Quotes

The future is as bright as the promises of God. – William Carey

Category:
Future, The

A good education is another name for happiness. – Ann Plato

Category:
Happiness

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. – Ruth St. Denis

Category:
Religion

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

Category:
Memory