Quote

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Jesse Jackson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Coalition
Coalitions
Jewish
Leaders
Conscience
Leader
Black

More quotes by Jesse Jackson

Image
The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
Image
See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
Jesse Jackson
Image
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.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
Jesse Jackson
Image
We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
Jesse Jackson
Image
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
Image
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson
Image
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
Jesse Jackson
Image
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson
Image
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
Jesse Jackson
Image
We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
Jesse Jackson
Image
You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
Jesse Jackson
Image
It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
Jesse Jackson
Image
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
Jesse Jackson
Image
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
Jesse Jackson