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
Weve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. – 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
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. – Jesse Jackson