Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They dont know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. – Jesse Jackson
In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson
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
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. – Jesse Jackson