#do

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

— Jesse Jackson

#change #change things #courage #does #initiative

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

#before #came #down #history #many

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#greatness #mansion #measure #must #up

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

#agenda #barriers #came #challenge #concluded

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#collective #credit #credit card #debt #domestic

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#had #landowners #male #only #right

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#concerns #doctors #gained #greater #had

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

— Jesse Jackson

#explanation #failure #matters #needs #success

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced