Jesse Jackson Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Quoted in Playboy, Nov. 1969

• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, America, Diversity

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Color, Common Threads

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

• His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

  Jesse Jackson

  Slave Ships, America, Diversity

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Lazy

• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Black And White, Yellow

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