Quotes by Jesse Jackson

About Jesse Jackson:

Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000.
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My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

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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, t...

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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

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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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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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We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 per...

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

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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first A...

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

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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

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

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

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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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Author Bio

  • NameJesse Jackson
  • DescriptionAfrican-American civil rights activist and politician
  • AliasesJesse Jackson, Sr.; Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
  • BornOctober 8, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Sportsperson; Gridiron Football Player
  • AwardsSpingarn Medal; Presidential Medal Of Freedom