Quote by Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)

• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

• America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

• Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

• Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

• In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

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