Jesse Jackson Quotes

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Jesse Jackson

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 8, 1941

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

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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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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

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Fighting disparities is very significant.

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We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

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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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When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

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Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

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Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

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