Jesse Jackson Black Quotations

Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

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

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

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?

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.

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.

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

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily available and they didn't deliver the resources and I think people died because of this and these are tough questions that need to be answered.