We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
Jesse JacksonTo bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse JacksonRacism 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.
Jesse JacksonPresident Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
Jesse JacksonWe have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.
Jesse Jackson