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Letter "J" » Jesse Jackson Quotes
«Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
alliance, form of worship, Great White, pathological, pink, racism, sickness, whites
«The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
activist, activists, American elder, Arab, businessperson, disable, disabled, environmentalist, environmentalists, farmer, gay and, Hispanic, Jew, native, Native American, quilt, quilted, quilts, small farmer, small white, The Black, the disabled
«I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
melted, melting, melting pot, pot
«Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Imprisonment
| Keywords:
capital punishment, dungeon, dungeons, imprisonment, murderer
«I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
environmentalist, environmentalists, recycle, recycled, recycling, Speeches
«Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
render, salty, sweat, sympathy, with sympathy
«George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
George Bush, heads of state, head of state, substantial
«America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
blanket, blanketed, blankets, cloth, cloths, thread, woven
«A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
bag, card, credit card, credit cards, Gucci, of value, strap, strapped, straps
«Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.»
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