Jesse Jackson Quotes

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Jesse Jackson

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 8, 1941

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

Jesse Jackson

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

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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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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

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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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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

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You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

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I am a journalist.

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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

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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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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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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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