Jesse Jackson Quotes
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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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I want to make America better!
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
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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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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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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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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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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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Keep hope alive!
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.