#us

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#cause #symptom #were #weren

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

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

— Jesse Jackson

#forward #power #thrust

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

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

— Jesse Jackson

#how #learn #lesson #live #must

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#been #behave #democratic #fair #focus

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

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

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#day #dreaming #future #i #laughing