Latest Jesse Jackson Quotes from Interviews

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• It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

  Jesse Jackson

  Giving, Doe, Dollars

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• I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Determination, Kings

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• The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

  Jesse Jackson

  Play, America, Needs

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• You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

  Jesse Jackson

  Talking, Offensive, Diplomatic

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• It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote does not matter or do vote and nothing happens.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Thinking, People

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• When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

  Jesse Jackson

  Art, School, Police

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• Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Basketball, Zero, School

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• We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, Wind, Persist

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• We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Wipe, Moral

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• Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

  Jesse Jackson

  Able, Showing Up, Vulgar

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• What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

  Jesse Jackson

  Might, Rich, Be Good

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• What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

  Jesse Jackson

  America

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• When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

  Jesse Jackson

  White, Vote, Right To Vote

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• The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

  Jesse Jackson

  Liberation

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• No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

  Jesse Jackson

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• If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

  Jesse Jackson

  Senior, Rights, Wings

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• The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

  Jesse Jackson

  Rights, Voting, Firsts

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• The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

  Jesse Jackson

  Minorities, Captains, Ships

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• President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, Rights, President

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• There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Impact, People

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• You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

  Jesse Jackson

  Cutting, Unemployment, Taxes

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• You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Commitment, Needs

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• We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

  Jesse Jackson

  Top Down, Economy, Bottom

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• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

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• The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, People, Black

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