Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 6

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• No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

  Jesse Jackson

  Self, Want, Riot

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson appears at protest in Ferguson". "Hannity" with Andrea Tantaros, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2014.

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• What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

  Jesse Jackson

  Perfect, Trying, Public Service

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• In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

  Jesse Jackson

  Wall, Order, Way

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• We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.

  Jesse Jackson

  New York, Hysteria, People

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• The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, People, Black

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

  Jesse Jackson

  President, Ran

  "Q&A: Jesse Jackson Talks Before Heading to Denver". Interview with Hamil R. Harris, voices.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 2008.

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• Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, Liars, White

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. August 8, 2011.

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• We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sweat, Differences, Progress

  Jesse Jackson, Roger D. Hatch, Frank E. Watkins (1987). “Straight from the heart”, Fortress Pr

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• When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Grandma, Boys

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• I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Blessed, Home, Yugoslavia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Quality, Enough

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Impact, People

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

  Jesse Jackson

  Senior, Rights, Wings

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• 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.

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• His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

  Jesse Jackson

  Order, Law, Needs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

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  Men, Black, Healthcare

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• If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cancer, Doctors, Black

  "Jesse Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

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  Growth, Development, Inclusion

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

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  Keys, Political, Growth

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• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

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  Moving, Focus, Shadow

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• I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

  Jesse Jackson

  Liberty, Libertarian, Allegations

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• Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

  Jesse Jackson

  Memories, Important

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• People always grow and mature.

  Jesse Jackson

  People, Mature, Grows

  Interview with Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 08, 2009.

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• So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

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  Missing, Too Much, Limits

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