Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.
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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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The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
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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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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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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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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I want to make America better!
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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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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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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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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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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.