Jesse Jackson Quotes (116 Quotes)

Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, that most Americans disagree with what Rev. Robertson said.

Why are there no African Americans in that circle ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership and trapped into the suffering

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law women, gender equality, workers' rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.

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

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.

I don't think those messages really get through. I think people know this demonstration is about the war in Iraq, and I think that theme overrides any other messages that may be off-message. You get what I'm saying I think at every peace demonstration you have many voices, but I think the central message is about the war in Iraq.

It was an unpopular decision to release them.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

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

We are neighbors and I would hope that there would be a dtente on hostile rhetoric,

We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China,

Those people are not walking the beat today (in Philadelphia), and that's good news.

We reduce this to Bill Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky, but what is at stake here, really, is the spirit of the nation, the mood of the nation, how the world sees our nation,

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are hostile and defensive and demagogic. He was none of that.

We must make it clear that talk of isolating Venezuela, talk of assassinating its leader, this is unacceptable, and it must be denounced roundly by our president,

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Hovering above us is a certain degree of sadness. There's been another murder at the hands of officers of the state. And what do we want We want the truth to be told. We want justice served, and the laws to be adhered to.

We go as independent religious leaders, as private citizens, not with the support of our government. But I'm sure they hope we are successful in our appeal.

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

To kill him is a way of making politicians look tough. It does not make it right. It does not make any of us safer. It does not make any of us more secure.

Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

I've been in TV for a lot of years and I've never seen anything like them.

She's still struggling physically. She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to put her legs up to take away the stress. She still has playbacks about being in the war under those conditions, so she goes through these highs and lows of stress.

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

He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.

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.

Republicans, Democrats and all Americans of good will should denounce this statement, should distance themselves from Mr. Bennett, ... And the private sector should not support Mr. Bennett's radio show or his comments on the air.

He repeated that incendiary comparison a few days later, adding the ugly allegation that when churches were contacted about helping some of the victims, the first thing they wanted to know was, ''Are they black or white

I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership

assume its position in the worlds leadership and its rightful place in the family of nations.

Bill Bennett's remarks are morally degenerate. It's a blatant wish for genocide. What's dangerous about Bennett's remarks is that his friends in the White House are making public policy decisions.

First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.

Face it, he is embarrassed by whatever happened, however one defines inappropriate, and Hillary's had to face the humiliation of it all, ... and their marriage will survive this.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.

Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even,

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily available and they didn't deliver the resources and I think people died because of this and these are tough questions that need to be answered.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

We are saddened by the passing of Rosa Parks. We rejoice in her legacy, which will never die. In many ways, history is marked as before, and after, Rosa Parks.