Jesse Jackson Quotes

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hope

• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Me
  • Him

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Body
  • Speak

• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Family
  • Art
  • Job

• I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Alone

• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Experience
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Girl
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Political

• Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Short

• Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Soul

• The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime Israel, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World

• If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up 'What's that?' - It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said 'this is a man,' 'this is a house,' etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Children
  • House

• Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Justice

• I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

  

  Mason Cooley

• My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Great
  • America
  • Friend

• I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.

  

  Owen King
  • People
  • Work
  • Wife

• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  

  Kirk Franklin
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

  

  Jesse Jackson