Agendas Quote by Jesse Jackson

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo… to give a voice…

— Shirley Chisholm

When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I…

— David Duke

I got involved in politics in order to help working people in my community - especially the Black people who had gotten the short…

— Vernon Jones

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against…

— Andrew Breitbart

There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has…

— Barack Obama

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was…

— Alan Dershowitz

I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy.…

— Jimmy Carter

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that…

— Bill Ayers

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral…

— Laura Moser

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch