Jesse Jackson Quotations | Page 2

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

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

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.

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

We are at a tug of war over American values. Our nation must lead with superior ideas and sacrifices, not with guns and bombs.

What has not changed is the ballistics report saying the gun that Mr. Graham had is not the one that killed Mr. Lambert, that has not changed, the lack of positive identification has not changed, the lack of cross-examination has not changed, inadequate legal representation has not changed,

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

We're simply saying to Wall Street corporations ... we expect you to open up the market place, ... We (African-Americans) have good products, services, talent and capital. Let us in.

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

She's still struggling physically. She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to put her legs up to take away the stress. She still has playbacks about being in the war under those conditions, so she goes through these highs and lows of stress.

She's still struggling physically, ... She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to put her legs up to take away the stress. She still has playbacks about being in the war under those conditions, so she goes through these highs and lows of stress.

She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.

She sat down in order that we might stand up.

Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for fairness, equal protection, equal opportunity, self-determination, the struggle to defend the poor and the needy, a fairer distribution of wealth and resources, continues in the face of the hostility of the vested interests, power and domination of the few.

She never stopped fighting, fundamentally in her own way, she was a freedom fighter.

Of course, at the age of nineteen or twenty, she knows about sex, ... She's seen videos, watched television, listened to music. She knows what is expected in marriage, and knows what, in fact, happens.

My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Right now it's as if Milosevic and Clinton are locked into a bear hug and neither can turn the other loose, ... This could very well be a kind of breakthrough.

Certainly I think the issue of race as a factor will not go away from this equation.

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.

If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.

He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers' rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.

He exudes a great sense of confidence in the jury as being fair. Michael anxiously awaits the jury's verdict, but anticipates acquittal.

He does not want to eat in fact on the table of those who would kill him,

He repeated that incendiary comparison a few days later, adding the ugly allegation that when churches were contacted about helping some of the victims, the first thing they wanted to know was, ''Are they black or white?

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We must democratize access to health care, education, and housing. Without an agenda of economic security, democracy is just recycling poverty.

Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn't go back,

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

I say America: Stay out of the Bushes,

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, that most Americans disagree with what Rev. Robertson said.

Republicans, Democrats and all Americans of good will should denounce this statement, should distance themselves from Mr. Bennett, ... And the private sector should not support Mr. Bennett's radio show or his comments on the air.

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

I think President Bush and Secretary Powell are doing their best, but there must be some bridge to break the impasse. We must prioritize getting the release of the American soldiers who are, in fact, being held hostage.

I think he should have made it very clear to Monica, to her family. ... The responsibility should have been in his lap, and I think in time that as he has the healing, the strength overcomes the anger, that we'll hear even more of that contrition,

most qualified and experienced candidate in a generation.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles. Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles, ... Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

Yesterday, when a new president came in, the wind shifted. For many of us, it shifted from a tail wind to a head wind, so much of what we fought for ... will be challenged now. Our mandate is to go forward.

We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China,

We must make it clear that talk of isolating Venezuela, talk of assassinating its leader, this is unacceptable, and it must be denounced roundly by our president,

We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.

We need millions more to act and react to what we saw in the gulf. Images were burned into our consciousness.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

We're losing too many of our children, ... I hope today isn't the end. Let's go back and get our communities together.

We are saddened by the passing of Rosa Parks. We rejoice in her legacy, which will never die. In many ways, history is marked as before, and after, Rosa Parks.

We are not going to compromise the Voting Rights Act.

We're not going to have an oil war.

We reduce this to Bill Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky, but what is at stake here, really, is the spirit of the nation, the mood of the nation, how the world sees our nation,

Those people are not walking the beat today (in Philadelphia), and that's good news.

We began to talk about one's faith and the storm.

The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership and trapped into the suffering?

Why are there no African Americans in that circle?

We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

Face it, he is embarrassed by whatever happened, however one defines inappropriate, and Hillary's had to face the humiliation of it all, ... and their marriage will survive this.

Faith lifted him above fear. The enemy can't lock up faith. The enemy can't bury faith. The enemy can't steal faith. When it's dark, you fight fate with faith.

The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are hostile and defensive and demagogic. He was none of that.

The good news is, she is a tough person and she is going to survive this.

We will be there for as long as we have been in South Korea.

What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.

We go as independent religious leaders, as private citizens, not with the support of our government. But I'm sure they hope we are successful in our appeal.

We want to do more than see them and take the messages from their relatives from who we have talked. We want to gain their freedom.

Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even,

You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda.

we will not apologize even for slavery. We're hung up on that word, that kind of cultural wall.

at the White House after hours, talking about a range of things and having prayer.

There's no excuse for it all and they should be dealt with immediately.

I've been in TV for a lot of years and I've never seen anything like them.

The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily,

It was an unpopular decision to release them.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Some people's lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.

Africans in the hull of a slave ship.

Your light challenges the darkness, ... Your light is being seen and your heat is being felt around the world. Thank you, Cindy Sheehan.

You need faith when storms come suddenly, so I really talked to Hillary and Chelsea about matters of faith and unconditional love,

They've been out there all day in the blistering sun. There is no bus picking them up because there is no destination for the people.

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

This is the next stage of our struggle. The first stage was to end slavery. The second stage was to end legal Jim Crow. The third stage was the right to vote. The fourth stage is access to capital.

This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness.

This Justice Department is dishonoring the commitment made in 1965.

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It is racist to call American citizens refugees.