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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Jesse Jackson

I’m too mature to be angry.
JESSE JACKSON

Angry Myself One Liner
He 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 JACKSON

Equality Himself Law Right Woman
People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.
JESSE JACKSON

Education Myself People
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Election Politics Protection
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth
It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.
JESSE JACKSON

Absence Enough Justice Live Need Peace People Quiet Together
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
JESSE JACKSON

Challenge Leadership Moral
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
JESSE JACKSON

Achievement Believe Heart Mindset Myself
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps… then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
JESSE JACKSON

Feeling Life Myself Pain See Walk
We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Impossible Inspirational Ourselves
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Freedom Government Limitation Oneself
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON

Death People Time
Our 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 JACKSON

God Nation Ourselves
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Philosophy Talk
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
JESSE JACKSON

Change Tears Yourself
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

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The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

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