When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
While I’ve spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it’s not been enough. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Those companies that don’t see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn’t see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
I think reconciliation is Obama’s goal – but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is ‘not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.’ That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
