Quote

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

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
Preach
Alternative
Alternatives
Better

More quotes by Jesse Jackson

Image
You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
Jesse Jackson
Image
When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
Jesse Jackson
Image
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
Jesse Jackson
Image
What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
Jesse Jackson
Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
Jesse Jackson
Image
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
Image
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson
Image
You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
Jesse Jackson
Image
The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
Jesse Jackson
Image
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
Jesse Jackson
Image
The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
Jesse Jackson
Image
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson
Image
No lie can live forever.
Jesse Jackson