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The Wiping Out Of Millions Of Homes Took Away Black And Brown Wealth. It Drove Poverty, It Drove Unemployment, It Drove People To Food Stamps.
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The Wiping Out Of

Jesse Jackson
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The Wiping Out Of Millions Of Homes Took Away Black And Brown Wealth. It Drove Poverty, It Drove Unemployment, It Drove People To Food Stamps.

Understanding the Quote: "the wiping out of millions of homes took away black and brown..."

This quote by Jesse Jackson reflects deeply on the theme of home. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Home, People, Black, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

Whether you’re a student exploring new ideas, a leader trying to motivate your team, or someone seeking direction in life — this quote provides value. It resonates because it’s more than words — it’s a bridge between experience and wisdom. It shows how Jesse Jackson interprets life's core challenges and triumphs.

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People
Way
The Us Must Be The Honest Broker Between The Israelis And The Palestinians. America Needs To Be To Both Of Them What Neither Could Be To The Other: A Trusted Brokering Partner. It Is In Their Interest And Our Interest For America To Play That Role.
Play
America
Needs
Conservatives And Liberals Can Find Common Ground.
Common
Common Ground
The Fact Is In A City Like Chicago, For Example, Unemployment In The Black Community Is Around 20 Percent For Adults, 35 Percent For Youth, They Bail Out The Banks, Public Schools, There Is A Deep Divide. We Need A Plan For Reconstruction And Redevelopment And I Hope That - Police Are The Gatekeepers But Behind That Gate Are These Problems Of Disparities And Injustice.
School
Cities
Community
We've Removed The Ceiling Above Our Dreams. There Are No More Impossible Dreams.
Motivational
Dream
Black History
Never Look Down On Anybody Unless You're Helping Him Up.
Inspirational
Life
Respect
If I Can Make It, You Can Make It.
Inspiration
Slogans
Ifs
Politicians Refuse To Modernize Schools, They Cut Out Midnight Basketball, But Build All These New Jails. First Class Jails, Second Class Schools. This Is Zero Tolerance.
Basketball
Zero
School
When The Doors Of Opportunity Swing Open, We Must Make Sure That We Are Not Too Drunk Or Too Indifferent To Walk Through.
Opportunity
Swings
Doors
A Check Or Credit Card, A Gucci Bag Strap, Anything Of Value Will Do. Give As You Live.
Famous Inspirational
Giving
Credit
If You Try You May Fail, If You Don't Try You're Guaranteed To Fail.
Words Of Wisdom
Trying
May
America Is Not A Blanket Woven From One Thread, One Color, One Cloth.
Color
America
Diversity
I Came To The Conclusion That In Order To End Racial Barriers, I Needed To Run For The Office Of The President And Put Forth An Agenda Of Social Justice And World Peace. In Addition, I Concluded That Someone Needed To Run And Challenge The Liberal Orthodoxy.
Running
Order
Justice
I Take My Role Seriously As A Pastor.
Roles
Pastor
My Constituency Is The Desperate, The Damned, The Disinherited, The Disrespected And The Despised.
Politics
Desperate
Politician
I Do Not Deny The Allegation, I Deny The Allegator.
Liberty
Libertarian
Allegations
Look At The Coded Language The Right Is Using Against President Barack Obama. Openly Calling Him A Liar In Congress, Saying He Is 'not A Christian, He Was Not Born Here, He Is Not One Of Us.' That Makes Addressing Such Issues Trickier For The First African-american In The White House.
Christian
Liars
White
No One Should Negotiate Their Dreams. Dreams Must Be Free To Fly High. No Government, No Legislature, Has A Right To Limit Your Dreams. You Should Never Agree To Surrender Your Dreams.
Dream
Government
Goal
Workers, Black And White, Need Some Kind Of International Affirmative Action To Protect Them From Unfair Competition With Unorganized Or Slave Labor Abroad And Unfair Competition With Robots At Home.
Home
Black And White
Slave Labor
The Question Becomes What Kind Of Coalition Can We Build That Will Make A Transition And Empower The People Of Iraq? The American Soldiers' Presence There Is An Act Of Provocation. There's A Big Red Ball On The Back Of Every American Soldier In That Country, So Our Being There Contributes To The Crisis, It Does Not Resolve The Crisis.
Country
Iraq
People
It's Not Enough To Be Quiet. Quietness Is The Absence Of Noise. We Need Peace, The Presence Of Justice And To Be - And So People Here Can Coexist And Live Together.
People
Justice
Together
Our Goal Was Not Freedom. Freedom Was The Necessary Prerequisite To Get To Equality.
Goal
Black History
Black
We Picked Their Cotton. We Cooked Their Food. We Nursed Their Babies. Now We Can Run Their Cities. We Can Run Their States. We Will Run The Country.
Running
Country
Baby
Tears Will Get You Sympathy, Sweat Will Get You Change.
Change
Sympathy
Sweat
I Had Gained A Greater Appreciation Of Hearing The Concerns Of Woman, Doctors, And So Many Others.
Appreciation
Doctors
Hearing
The Crisis Is Not An Opportunity To Change The Character Of Louisiana's Political Order. We Must Not Use The Crisis To Turn Louisiana Into A Red State -- This Is A Rainbow State.
Character
Opportunity
Order
When Everyone Is Included, Everyone Wins.
Winning
Inclusion
You Know, People'd Always Ask "why Is Jesse Jackson Running For The White House?" They Never Seen The House I'm Running From.
Running
White
People
Capitalism Without Capital Is Just An Ism.
Justice
Isms
Capitalism
We Campaigned Across The South . . . Without A Single Catcall Or Boo. It Was Not Until We Got North To New York That We Began To Hear This From Koch, President Reagan, And Then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some People Are Making Hysteria While I'm Making History.
New York
Hysteria
People
In Politics, An Organized Minority Is A Political Majority.
Freedom
Political
Democracy
When We Were Hit On 9/11 It Took Us A Few Weeks To Get The Coalition Together Because [george] Bush Had Come In With A Kind Of Narrow Ideology, Looking At The World, I'd Say, Through A Keyhole And Not Through A Door.
Doors
Together
World
There Have Been More People Disenfranchised In Washington Than There Have Been In Kuwait.
Kuwait
People
Has Beens
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.
Proud
Colonialism
Slavery
I Know How To Run A Nationally Paced Campaign.
Running
Campaigns
Know How
We Must Not Measure Greatness From The Mansion Down, But From The Manger Up. Jesus Said That We Should Not Be Judged By The Bark We Wear But By The Fruit That We Bear. Jesus Said That We Must Measure Greatness By How We Treat The Least Of These.
Success
Jesus
Greatness
I Was Born In A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born In Me.
Born
Slums
The Great Responsibility That We Have Today Is To Put The Poor And The Near Poor Back On Front Of The American Agenda.
Responsibility
Agendas
Today
If You Wear A Hoodie But Aren't Registered To Vote, You Got The Symbolism But Missed The Substance.
Symbolism
Substance
Vote
What's Good For Blacks Is Good For All Of America.
America
Gangs Are A Group Reaction To Helplessness.
Groups
Youth
Gang
No Lie Can Live Forever.
Liars
Lying
Forever
The Ground Is No Place For A Champion. The Ground Is No Place That I Will Wallow On.
Champion
Inclusion Is Not A Matter Of Political Correctness. It Is The Key To Growth.
Keys
Political
Growth
No One Should Negotiate Their Dreams. Dreams Must Be Free To Fly High.
Dream
Surrender
Legislature
That Obama I Would Like To Cut His Nuts Off.
Cutting
Nuts
At The End Of The Day, We Must Go Forward With Hope And Not Backward By Fear And Division.
Fear
The End Of The Day
Division
[donald Trump] Says If He Wins, He`ll Accept The Outcome. If He Lose, He Will Not Accept The Outcome. That Is Playing By Two Set Of Rules That Is Not Very Fair.
Winning
Two
Outcomes
That's All Hymie Wants To Talk About Is Israel. Every Time You Go To Hymietown That's All They Want To Talk About.
Israel
Want
That's Just Like America. It's Made Up Of Lots Of Different People. We're All Different Colors, Different Ages, We Do Different Jobs -- But It Takes All Of Us Black People, White People, Brown People, Men And Women, Young And Old, Working In The Factories, Working In The Fields, Working In Offices, Working In Stores -- It Takes A Lot Of Different Kinds Of People To Get The Job Done For America.
Jobs
Men
Color
See, Barack Been, Um, Talking Down To Black People On This Faith-based... I Want To Cut His Nuts Off. Barack, He's Talking Down To Black People.
Cutting
Talking
Nuts
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