If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain’t no hospital going to lock him out. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don’t have a plan for reconstruction at home. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
At the end of the day, we’re defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. Jesse Jackson Read Quote
