Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 7

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

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

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

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 think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

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.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

If I can make it, you can make it.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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

Fighting disparities is very significant.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.