Jesse Jackson Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Life, Christian, Religious

• 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

  Source: www.colorlines.com

• At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

  Jesse Jackson

  Voters, Politician

  "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.

• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Home, Average

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

• My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

  Jesse Jackson

  Politics, Desperate, Politician

  1984 Speech at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Integrity, Men

• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Views, Order, People

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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