American politics Quote by Jesse Jackson

I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back…

— Valerie June

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

— Richard Pryor

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

— Colin Firth

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the…

— Jesse Jackson

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Jesse Jackson

When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do…

— Jesse Jackson

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

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

— Jesse Jackson

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough?... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s…

— Jim Clyburn

I've paid my dues, climbed the ranks without trash talk.

— Kelvin Gastelum