Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville. Jesse Jackson Read Quote