Jesse Jackson Quotes

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

Individuals and families whose standards of living are shockingly low quite naturally feel that they have nothing to lose by championing Communism.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.