Jesse Jackson Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Courage, Time

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

• Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

• 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

• Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

  Jesse Jackson

  Political, Soul, Democracy

  "The Question Is Moot!". Interview With Steve Stearns, www.sonicsrising.com. October 12, 2007.

• If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Work, Political

• I want to cut his nuts off.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cutting, Nuts, Politics

  YouTube Chanel "NationObamaNation"/ "Jesse Jackson on Obama's N*Ts", www.youtube.com. July 9, 2008.

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Wisdom, Giving, Politics

• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Depression, Work, Racism

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

• Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Memories, Political

• My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

  Jesse Jackson

  Politics, Desperate, Politician

  1984 Speech at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Numbers, Political, Politics

• I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fun, Political, Speech

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