Top 100 Quotes About Jesse Jackson
#1. Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
Jesse Jackson
#2. If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
Jesse Jackson
#3. Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.
Jesse Jackson
#4. In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson
#5. Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
Jesse Jackson
#6. One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
Jackie Jackson
#7. We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.
Jesse Jackson
#8. I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
Jesse Jackson
#9. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#10. We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.
Jesse Jackson
#11. In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
Jesse Jackson
#13. Abortion is black genocide ... What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
Jesse Jackson
#14. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
#15. I'm in show business ... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
Chris Rock
#16. Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
Jesse Jackson
#18. The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
Jesse Jackson
#20. Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
Ann Richards
#21. George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson
#23. I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Jesse Jackson
#24. If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
Jesse Jackson
#25. If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!
Jesse Jackson
#26. If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.
Michael Eric Dyson
#28. When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#29. We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
#30. I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.
Donna Brazile
#31. Has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
Jesse Jackson
#32. We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.
Jesse Jackson
#33. It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson
#34. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#35. The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
Jesse Jackson
#36. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#37. The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
Jesse Jackson
#38. I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
Jesse Jackson
#41. When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#42. God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
#43. The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Jesse Jackson
#44. Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
Jesse Jackson
#45. Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson
#46. If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
Jesse Jackson
#47. We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
Jesse Jackson
#48. Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
Jesse Jackson
#49. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
#50. Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.
Mark Steyn
#51. I'm sure you know by now, Jesse Jackson was overheard saying, and I'll put this more delicately, that he wanted to cut Barack Obama's testicles off. And Jesse has been on several news programs the last couple of days, explaining what he meant by those comments. Do you need to explain that?
Jay Leno
#52. Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Jesse Jackson
#53. It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#54. Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
#55. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#56. When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
Jesse Jackson
#57. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#58. Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.
Argus Hamilton
#59. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#60. You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
Kenneth Blackwell
#61. Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?
Lou Reed
#62. No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
Jesse Jackson
#63. Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
Jesse Jackson
#64. If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Jesse Jackson
#65. If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
Jesse Jackson
#66. We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
Jesse Jackson
#67. I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
Jesse Jackson
#68. When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved ... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
Jesse Jackson
#69. Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.
Jesse Jackson
#71. At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
Jesse Jackson
#72. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#73. Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.
Jesse Jackson
#74. You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
Jesse Jackson
#75. When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Jesse Jackson
#76. Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
Jesse Jackson
#77. We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
Jesse Jackson
#78. I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
Jesse Jackson
#80. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
Rush Limbaugh
#81. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#82. Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#83. I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
Jesse Jackson
#84. I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.
Jesse Jackson
#85. There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
Jesse Jackson
#86. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
#87. I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.
Jay Leno
#88. You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.
Jesse Jackson
#89. At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
Jesse Jackson
#90. Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Jesse Jackson
#91. Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize.
Jay Leno
#92. Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."
Ernest Hollings
#93. The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
Jesse Jackson
#94. In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
Jesse Jackson
#95. I want to make it a little inconvenient for everybody to get to me.
Jesse Jackson Jr.
#96. Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.
Jesse Jackson
#97. We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
Jesse Jackson
#98. 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.
Jesse Jackson
#99. At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson
#100. Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
Jesse Jackson
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