My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools.… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus… — 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
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — 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
