Collected Meditations
Showing 123 quotesRepublicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.— Jesse Jackson
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.— Jesse Jackson
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.— Jesse Jackson
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
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.— Jesse Jackson
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.— Jesse Jackson
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.— Jesse Jackson
I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.— Jesse Jackson
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