Jesse Jackson - White Quotes

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When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black, and white. We are all precious in God's sight—the real rainbow coalition.

Jesse Jackson

Racism 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.

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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression.

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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

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Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white, we are all precious in God's sight!

Jesse Jackson

If you wake up in the morning and think you're white, you're bound to meet someone before five o'clock who will let you know you are just another nigger.

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