Jesse Jackson

“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.”

“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”

“We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.”

“Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.”

“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.”

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

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

“It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.”