Jesse Jackson Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• 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

  Leadership, Strong, Pain

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Fighting, White

• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

• [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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, People, Wages

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Fighting disparities is very significant.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, Significant, Disparity

• We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, Wind, Persist

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

• 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

  Health, Mean, Fighting

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson on Fallout From Firing of Shirley Sherrod". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

• 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

  Letting Go, Fighting, Thinking

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama 'Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

• When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, World, Bells

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