419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

We're not going to have an oil war.

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

America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

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,

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

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 percent of American blacks out of work.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.