Jesse Jackson Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Fighting, White

• When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

  Jesse Jackson

  Opportunity, Swings, Doors

• If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

  Jesse Jackson

  Racism, People, Needs

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Depression, Work, Racism

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, White, Racism

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