My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
Nobody will save us from us but us.
I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
Pictures can live in one’s memory. That’s why they are important.
Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.
The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.
Your honor, throughout this process I’ve asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.
The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.
Living above your means is financial sin.
It’s not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.