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Quotes from Jesse Jackson

I want to cut his nuts off.
~ Jesse Jackson
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
~ Jesse Jackson
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
~ Jesse Jackson
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
~ Jesse Jackson
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
~ Jesse Jackson
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
~ Jesse Jackson
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
~ Jesse Jackson
God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
~ Jesse Jackson
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
~ Jesse Jackson
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
~ Jesse Jackson
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.
~ Jesse Jackson
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
~ Jesse Jackson
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
~ Jesse Jackson
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
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
~ Jesse Jackson
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
~ Jesse Jackson
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
~ Jesse Jackson
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.
~ Jesse Jackson
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
~ Jesse Jackson
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
~ Jesse Jackson
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
~ Jesse Jackson
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
~ Jesse Jackson
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
~ Jesse Jackson
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
~ Jesse Jackson