Jesse Jackson Quotes

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

Whores don't live in the company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits, and citizens never support a weak administration.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

People don't want to give me credit, which is fine.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.