419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

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    I’m not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

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    No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.

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    To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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    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.

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    Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can’t read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

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    If I were a white candidate, I’d have won the Democratic nomination.

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    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.

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    Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don’t burn the people.

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