Jesse Jackson Quotes
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
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I'm too mature to be angry.
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The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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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.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.