#ore

Your children need your presence more than your presents. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#children #more #need #presence #presents

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #came #down #history #many

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#america #barack #before #beginning #day

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#dead #foreign #george #george bush #heads

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

— Jesse Jackson

#disenfranchised #kuwait #more #more people #people

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#america #banks #been #break #break up

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

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

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

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#call #could #him #history #how