Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Jesse Jackson quotes about
Race designation is a political designation.
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.
That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.
I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.