Jesse Jackson People Quotations

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

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

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

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

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles. Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

We need a domestic version of these vehicles, ... Whether it's the Ozarks, East L.A. or Harlem, there must be vehicles ... to transport capital to people who need it.

Those people are not walking the beat today (in Philadelphia), and that's good news.

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

People always grow and mature.

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.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

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.

I don't think those messages really get through. I think people know this demonstration is about the war in Iraq, and I think that theme overrides any other messages that may be off-message. You get what I'm saying? I think at every peace demonstration you have many voices, but I think the central message is about the war in Iraq.

These poor black people were left stranded in the city when federal government had resources readily available and they didn't deliver the resources and I think people died because of this and these are tough questions that need to be answered.