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Jesse Jackson

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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


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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.


— Jesse Jackson


#how #learn #lesson #live #must

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.


— Jesse Jackson


#ceiling #dreams #impossible #more #our

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.


— Jesse Jackson


#comes #create #employment #entrepreneurship #more

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.


— Jesse Jackson


#children #enough #i #lot #perhaps

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


#defining #dies #dimension #i #issue

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


#ask #house #i #jackson #jesse

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.


— Jesse Jackson


#choose #deny #else #mate #may

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.


— Jesse Jackson


#forward #power #thrust

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


#agree #fly #free #government #high






About Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson Quotes




Did you know about Jesse Jackson?

Time magazine quoted Jackson as saying at that time that the traditional civil rights movement had lost its "offensive thrust. In the mid-1990s he was approached about being the United States Ambassador to South Africa but declined the opportunity in favor of helping his son Jesse Jackson Jr. In 1965 Jackson participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches organized by James Bevel King and other civil rights leaders in Alabama.

He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. is his eldest son.

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