I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSONI hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSONWhen we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I’d say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
JESSE JACKSONLeadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
JESSE JACKSONYou may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSONGeorge Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
JESSE JACKSONA check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
JESSE JACKSONIt is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
JESSE JACKSONThe invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
JESSE JACKSONWhen the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
JESSE JACKSONIn 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 JACKSONWe were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
JESSE JACKSONLuck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
JESSE JACKSONHe has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
JESSE JACKSONGiuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSONOur flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
JESSE JACKSONThe only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
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