Jesse Jackson Quotes

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

The majority are not morally free to become a tyranny and destroy the rights of minorities.

Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men, no great thing can really be accomplished.

In the end, civil wars are about the distribution of power.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.

Nothing in reality renders legitimate governments so insecure as extreme ignorance in the people. It is this which yields them an easy prey to seduction, makes them the victims of prejudices and false alarms, and so ferocious withal that their interference in a time of public commotion is more to be dreaded than the eruption of a volcano.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil.

When everyone owns something, in reality nobody owns it. Control then occurs merely by the whims of the politicians in power.

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state..

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.

From the moment I was born, I was fed propaganda. I viewed the Kim dynasty not only as our fearless protectors from the imperialist forces, but also as gods.

Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.