Jesse Jackson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Jesse Jackson quotes and sayings page 2 (83 year old activist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 123 we have for him.
“If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.”
“When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.”
“Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.”
“Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.”
“There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.”
“Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.”
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
“Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.”
“I'm too mature to be angry.”
“Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.”
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