Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 8

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

I had to steal to survive.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.