Jesse Jackson Quotes:
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people’s home lives, domestic stuff.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent
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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To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It’s the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
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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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You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams.
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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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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.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.
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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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I’m too mature to be angry.
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I’m not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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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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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as ‘I Have a Dream’ speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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