The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
— Jesse Jackson
Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.
Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
Fighting disparities is very significant.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
I want to make America better!
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.
The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.
At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.
Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
I am a journalist.
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
I'm too mature to be angry.
Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
