Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 9

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

I want to make America better!

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

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

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.