419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don’t have a plan for reconstruction at home.

That’s all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that’s all they want to talk about.

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.

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.

I’ve paid my dues. I’ve earned your votes. Send me.

If you don’t feel apologetic for slavery, if you don’t feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.

You can’t plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

There’s great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.