Black Quotes by Jesse Jackson

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

— Jesse Jackson

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

— Jesse Jackson

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

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

— Jesse Jackson

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

— Jesse Jackson

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

— Jesse Jackson

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all…

— Jesse Jackson

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people…

— Jesse Jackson

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting…

— Jesse Jackson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is…

— Jesse Jackson

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor…

— Jesse Jackson

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

— Jesse Jackson

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and…

— Jesse Jackson

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking…

— Jesse Jackson

The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there…

— Jesse Jackson

On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand…

— Jesse Jackson

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

I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am -…

— Jesse Jackson

Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money…

— Jesse Jackson

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist,…

— Jesse Jackson

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35…

— Jesse Jackson

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular.…

— Jesse Jackson