Jesse Jackson Quotes

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

I always tell myself every day, I'm just as good as anybody.

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.