Quotes about Equality
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
Our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black, and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
— Jesse Jackson
My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.
— Jesse Jackson
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.
— Jesse Jackson
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
— Jesse Jackson
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
— Jesse Jackson
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
— Jesse Jackson
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
— Jesse Jackson
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
— Jesse Jackson
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
— Jesse Jackson
Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.
— Jesse Jackson
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
— Jesse Jackson