Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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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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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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People always grow and mature.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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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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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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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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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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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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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 we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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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.