A biography for Jesse Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.”
“Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.”
“If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!”
“I'm too mature to be angry.”
“Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.”
“A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.”
“You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.”
“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”
“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”
“I had to steal to survive.”
“Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.”
“In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.”
“We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.”
“The laws are stacked for the wealthy.”
“If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.”
“Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.”
“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
“Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.”
“When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.”