White Quotes by Jesse Jackson

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

— Jesse Jackson

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

— Jesse Jackson

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

— Jesse Jackson

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

— Jesse Jackson

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

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

— Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our…

— Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps...…

— 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

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

— Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps...…

— 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

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he…

— Jesse Jackson

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

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the…

— 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