Jesse Jackson quotes - page 2

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail. (Jesse Jackson)
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. View quote
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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. View quote
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. View quote
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Your children need your presence more than your presents. View quote
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait. View quote
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. View quote
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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters. (Jesse Jackson)
People always grow and mature. View quote
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I had to steal to survive. View quote
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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. View quote
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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. View quote
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. View quote
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. View quote
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. View quote
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville. View quote
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. View quote
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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. (Jesse Jackson)
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. View quote
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. View quote
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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. View quote
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. View quote
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