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.
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.
I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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.
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
