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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Pain Thinking
The solution to a crisis pregnancy is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Dealing Herself Kill Life Mom Pregnant Value
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
JESSE JACKSON

Attitude Oppression Violence
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
JESSE JACKSON

Hands Myself Religious
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
JESSE JACKSON

Inspirational Responsible Yourself
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.
JESSE JACKSON

Destructive Fight Future See
When 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 JACKSON

Kind Togetherness
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
JESSE JACKSON

Courage Determination Experience Forget Hope Strength Student Survive
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
JESSE JACKSON

Body Flower Himself Liberty Nation People Soul Touch
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON

Black Depression Oppression
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
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
JESSE JACKSON

Desire Policy Strength Time
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
JESSE JACKSON

Himself Possible
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
JESSE JACKSON

Myself Nature Talk
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
JESSE JACKSON

Dream Memories Ourselves Strong
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.
JESSE JACKSON

Parents Youth

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