Jesse Jackson Quotes

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Jesse Jackson

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 8, 1941

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

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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 they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

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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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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

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People always grow and mature.

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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.

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I want to make America better!

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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

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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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