Quote

[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.

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
Policy
Wages
Trump
Pushing
Term
Raise
Working
Raises
Fighting
Donald
Poor
Terms
Care
Health
People
Fight
Affordable

More quotes by Jesse Jackson

Image
I had to steal to survive.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Race designation is a political designation.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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
God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
Image
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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 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
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
Jesse Jackson
Image
Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
Jesse Jackson
Image
That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
Jesse Jackson
Image
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
Jesse Jackson