Jesse Jackson Quotes About Racism
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.
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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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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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