Jesse Jackson Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

  Jesse Jackson

  Attitude, Believe, Dope

• Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

  Jesse Jackson

  America, Issues, Rights

• The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

  Jesse Jackson

  Responsibility, Agendas, Today

• So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

  Jesse Jackson

  Technology, Skin Color, Play

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

• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

  First Love, Numbers, Long

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