Jesse Jackson

“You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.”

“People always grow and mature.”

“I'm too mature to be angry.”

“I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.”

“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”

“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.”

“I take my role seriously as a pastor.”

“The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.”

“While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.”

“Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.”

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”

“The laws are stacked for the wealthy.”

“I had to steal to survive.”