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Jesse Jackson

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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.


— Jesse Jackson


#collective #credit #credit card #debt #domestic

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.


— Jesse Jackson


#memories #must #our #our dreams #pulled

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.


— Jesse Jackson


#had #landowners #male #only #right

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


— Jesse Jackson


#bag #card #check #credit #credit card

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.


— Jesse Jackson


#attempt #obama #sen #succeed #support

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.


— Jesse Jackson


#least #politicians #voters

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.


— Jesse Jackson


#defined #end #end of the day #our #predicament

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.


— Jesse Jackson


#black #coalition #conscience #jewish #leaders

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


#cannot #children #deal #god #integrity

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.


— Jesse Jackson


#change #different #get #render #result






About Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson Quotes




Did you know about Jesse Jackson?

Time magazine quoted Jackson as saying at that time that the traditional civil rights movement had lost its "offensive thrust. In the mid-1990s he was approached about being the United States Ambassador to South Africa but declined the opportunity in favor of helping his son Jesse Jackson Jr. In 1965 Jackson participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches organized by James Bevel King and other civil rights leaders in Alabama.

He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. is his eldest son.

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