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• 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.
  • "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" in Right to Life News(January 1977)

• If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
  • As quoted in Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (1987) by David G. Myers and Malcolm A. Jeeves

• We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
  • As quoted in The Independent (9 June 1988)

• There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
  • As quoted in US News & World Report (10 March 1996) and The Boston Globe (5 September 2007)

• We need a regime change in this country.
  • As quoted in "Shades Of The Sixties", CBS News (26 October 2002)

• If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority,
  • As quoted in "Shades Of The Sixties", CBS News (26 October 2002)

• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up

• 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; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5Aq6wPFis

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• Keep Hope Alive
  • One of his most famous quotes
• "God gave you your skin color, so why not use it to your advantage?"

Quotes about Jackson

• "Can I get 5,000 dollars?"
  "Yeah, when Jesse Jackson gets a job."
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air