We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Jesse Jackson More Quotes by Jesse Jackson More Quotes From Jesse Jackson We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears. Jesse Jackson sweat progress differences For me, Barack Obama's 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 race heart opportunity Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president. Jesse Jackson ran president I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power! Jesse Jackson soul beautiful children What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them. Jesse Jackson rich be-good might To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson parenting family children We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Jesse Jackson get-better dream america When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm. Jesse Jackson quilts grandma boys I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. Jesse Jackson diversity political justice The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. Jesse Jackson motivational inspirational love I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life. Jesse Jackson yugoslavia blessed home We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country. Jesse Jackson running baby country When everyone is included, everyone wins. Jesse Jackson inclusion winning No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. Jesse Jackson legislature surrender dream If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. Jesse Jackson vote substance symbolism Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win! Jesse Jackson dream winning men My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. Jesse Jackson soldier mother father I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. Jesse Jackson justice running order You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning. Jesse Jackson fruit next morning Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson sweat change sympathy
