"Negroes' problem is that they do not have……" — 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 preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church."
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191 Quotes by Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson has 191 quotes on this site.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original…
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many…
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and…
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We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of…
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early…
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your…
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
— Michele Bachmann
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing…
— Warren Beatty
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American…
— John Boehner
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're…
— George W. Bush
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot…
— Abdallah II
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
— David Byrne
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want…
— Eric Cantor
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction…
— Eric Cantor
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public…
— Eric Alterman
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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It…
— Susan Faludi
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