Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If my mind can conceive it ,and my heart can believe it,i known I can achieve it. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share
