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Jesse Jackson

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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.


— Jesse Jackson


#explanation #failure #matters #needs #success

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.


— Jesse Jackson


#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.


— Jesse Jackson


#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

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


#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.


— Jesse Jackson


#stacked #wealthy

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.


— Jesse Jackson


#energy #focus #intimidation #less #lifestyle

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.


— Jesse Jackson


#president #priest #prophet #relationship #sacred

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.


— Jesse Jackson


#disenfranchised #kuwait #more #more people #people

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.


— Jesse Jackson


#behind #fall #faster #give #never

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.


— Jesse Jackson


#children #first #most #property #their






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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