Jesse Jackson Quotes

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

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

Nobody will save us from us but us.

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

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

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

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

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

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

Fighting disparities is very significant.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

I had to steal to survive.

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

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

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

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

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

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.

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.

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

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.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that's pushing all of them in terms of policy.

There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he'll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.