Quote

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Jesse Jackson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jesse Jackson
Age: 82
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
Conservatives
Liberals
Ground
Common
Find

More quotes by Jesse Jackson

Image
You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
Jesse Jackson
Image
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Race designation is a political designation.
Jesse Jackson
Image
There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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
Image
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
Jesse Jackson
Image
President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
Jesse Jackson
Image
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
Jesse Jackson
Image
There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
Jesse Jackson
Image
[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
Jesse Jackson
Image
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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
Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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
[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson