Jesse Jackson Quotes
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Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
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I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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I'm too mature to be angry.
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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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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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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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You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
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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.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!