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Jesse Jackson

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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.


— Jesse Jackson


#heard #i #know #lot #recycled

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


#appeal #attacked #behind #being #bill

I remember being taught my place.


— Jesse Jackson


#i #i remember #place #remember #taught

I take my role seriously as a pastor.


— Jesse Jackson


#pastor #role #seriously #take

I want to make America better!


— Jesse Jackson


#better #i #make #want

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.


— Jesse Jackson


#i #i was born #me #slum

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


#death #during #ever #extended #i

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.


— Jesse Jackson


#candidates #i #more #my time #time

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.


— Jesse Jackson


#cancer #cure #discovers #doctor #going

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


#american people #capital #just #kuwait #love






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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