Jesse Jackson Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

  Jesse Jackson

  Thinking, White, Issues

• Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

  Jesse Jackson

  Groups, Youth, Gang

• The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

  Jesse Jackson

  School, Cities, Community

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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