Jesse Jackson: Quotes about people

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“Jesse Jackson came by and said he wants to endorse me. I look on this with some doubt, because he generally makes his living criticizing people, not supporting them.”

Jesse Jackson

Jimmy Carter, diary entry of September 8, 1980. http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1009/carters_celebrity_encounters_page2.html
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People , Support

“See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based… I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.”

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson, thinking his mic was off, on Obama's faith-based initiative, while on Fox News Channel; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5Aq6wPFis

People , Faith

“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.”

Jesse Jackson

"How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" in Right to Life News (January 1977) http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/%7Erauch/nvp/consistent/jackson.html

Life , Money , People , Education

“The Rainbow is making room for the Native American, the most exploited people of all, a people with the greatest moral claim amongst us. We support them as they seek the restoration of their ancient land and claim amongst us. We support them as they seek the restoration of land and water rights, as they seek to preserve their ancestral homeland and the beauty of a land that was once all theirs. They can never receive a fair share for all they have given us. They must finally have a fair chance to develop their great resources and to preserve their people and their culture.”

Jesse Jackson

Address to the Democratic National Convention, 1984

Chance , Support , Beauty , People

“This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission: to feed the hungry; to clothe the naked; to house the homeless; to teach the illiterate; to provide jobs for the jobless; and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

Jesse Jackson

Address to the Democratic National Convention, 1984

Perfection , Clothes , Housing , People