Jesse Jackson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.”

“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”

“We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.”

“A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.”

“At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.”

“In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.”

“You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.”

“There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. 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.”

“George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.”