A biography for Jesse Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.”
“Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.”
“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.”
“To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.”
“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”
“Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.”
“The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.”
“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.”
“I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.”
“The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.”
“While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.”
“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”
“People always grow and mature.”
“The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.”
“The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.”
“We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.”
“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.”
“In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.”
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”
“I am a journalist.”