Jesse Jackson Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Together, Lessons

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

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  Children, Firsts, Wealth

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

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  Sacrifice, America, People

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• 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.

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  Kuwait, People, Matter

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

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  Slavery, Vote, Lost

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson likens gay marriage push to fight over slavery" by Rene Lynch, articles.latimes.com. May 10, 2012.

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

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  Wisdom, Giving, Politics

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• The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

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  Sex, Opening Up, Focus

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• Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

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  Moving, Focus, Shadow

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

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  Famous Inspirational, Giving, Credit

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• 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.

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  Letting Go, Fighting, Thinking

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama 'Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Zero, Moving, Games

  "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March 2000.

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• We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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  Running, Home, Average

  "Jesse Jackson: Power, politics and the preacher man". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 1999.

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• 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.

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  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Names, Columns

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race". Interview With Carol Felsenthal, www.chicagomag.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

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  Vote, American Politics, Dues

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

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  Unions, Moral, Authority

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• 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.

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  Technology, Skin Color, Play

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson on Fallout From Firing of Shirley Sherrod". Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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

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  Children, Integrity, Men

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

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  Determination, Hard Work, Blood

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

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  Keys, Political, Growth

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• I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

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  Alternatives, Nonviolence

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Fighting disparities is very significant.

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  Fighting, Significant, Disparity

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• 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.

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  New York, Race, Tuesday

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

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  Numbers, Political, Politics

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