Quote: Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: 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. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: 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. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. [Jesse Jackson]
Quote: Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. [Jesse Jackson]