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Jesse Jackson — Portrait after a picture by Jesse Jackson for President (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Jesse Jackson

American Baptist minister, activist, civil rights leader, politician, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition

1941–2026

14 quotes, most often on America and Politics.

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.
- America
America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Address to the Democratic National Convention (1984)
- America
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Biography Civil Rights Activist, Minister, Journalist, Biography.com.
- America
- Democracy

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