Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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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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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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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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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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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes 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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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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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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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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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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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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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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People always grow and mature.
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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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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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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.