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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

“That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.”

Jesse Jackson

Remark to Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman (25 January 1984), using an anti-semitic slur. See Coleman (10 April 1984) "A good reporter must put ethics ahead of other considerations" The Milwaukee Journal

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