Quote

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

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
Unemployed
Blacks
Lazy
Depression
Considered
Diversity
Justice
Apathetic
Whites

More quotes by Jesse Jackson

Image
Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Race designation is a political designation.
Jesse Jackson
Image
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
Jesse Jackson
Image
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
Jesse Jackson
Image
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Hymies. And Hymietown.
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
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
Jesse Jackson
Image
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
Jesse Jackson
Image
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
Jesse Jackson
Image
The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Jesse Jackson
Image
People always grow and mature.
Jesse Jackson