Jesse Jackson Quotes
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote does not matter or do vote and nothing happens.
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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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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
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I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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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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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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What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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