Jesse Jackson Quotes

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• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites --…
• I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
• We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing…
• Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life…
• That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.
• If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to…
• Hymies." And "Hymietown.
• If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
• The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you…
• A man must be willing to die for...
• Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
• If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
• You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
• Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
• We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New…
• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist,…
• I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed…
• When everyone is included, everyone wins.
• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

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