Jesse Jackson Quotes

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Jesse Jackson

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• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Kids
  • Teacher
  • Involved

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Power
  • Fight
  • Stand

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Cooking

• If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Smart
  • Little

• I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Military

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Community
  • Pain
  • Military

• Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Truth
  • Feelings
  • Mother`s

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Done

• The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.

  

  John McCain
  • Smart
  • Wall

• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Poverty

• In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Home
  • Die
  • Democracy

• You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

  

  Kris Wu
  • Life
  • Sacrifice

• So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Poverty