Jesse Jackson
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The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (born 8 October 1941) is an American pastor, and a prominent civil rights and political activist.
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- I am somebody.
I am somebody.
I am a child of God.
I may not be educated but I am somebody.
I may not have any money but I am somebody.
I may not eat steak every day but I am somebody.
I may not look the way you look but I am somebody.- Prayer during the Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, DC (21 May 1968)
- 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.
- If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it because I am somebody!
Respect me! Protect me! Never neglect me!
I am somebody!
My mind is a pearl! I can learn anything in the world!
Nobody can save us, from us, for us, but us!
I can learn. It is possible.
I ought to learn. It is moral.
I must learn. It is imperative.- Speech at Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana (4 March 1979), quoted in Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (1987) by David G. Myers and Malcolm A. Jeeves
- You must not surrender. You may or may not get there, but just know that you're qualified and hold on and hold out. We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive!
- "Keep Hope Alive", speech at the Democratic National Convention (19 July 1988)
- There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. How humiliating.
- Remarks at a meeting of Operation PUSH in Chicago (4 December 1993), quoted in US News & World Report (10 March 1996)
- We need a regime change in this country.… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
- Speech against the Iraq War, reported in Brian Dakss (26 October 2002) "Shades Of The Sixties" CBS News
- 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, thinking his mic was off, on Obama's faith-based initiative, while on Fox News Channel; [1]
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- We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
- As quoted in The Independent (9 June 1988)
