419 Quotes by Jesse Jackson

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    In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe’s development.

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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.

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    The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

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

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    Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.

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    Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

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

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    The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.

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