Jesse Jackson
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.Collection: Justice
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.Collection: Race
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.Collection: God
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.Collection: Quilts
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.Collection: Law
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.Collection: Views
In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.Collection: Reality
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.Collection: Senior
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.Collection: Baby
The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.Collection: Champion
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.Collection: White
When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.Collection: Cake
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.Collection: Home
Race designation is a political designation.Collection: Race
You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.Collection: Teacher
The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.Collection: Liberation
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.Collection: Jobs
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.Collection: Love
Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.Collection: Fall
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.Collection: Self
What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.Collection: Perfect
We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.Collection: New York
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.Collection: Home
We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.Collection: Sweat