Jesse Jackson

There is an anxiety, as you look at these changing demographics, that those in exile cannot get back home.

I just think that this language that we're off on tonight is taking attention away from the need to address what is really hurting. Fifty million Americans have no health insurance. That's the King agenda.

I think that the mayor, the governor and the president bear responsibility at each level.

I would think most citizens of Gaffney would be against this, that it's morally wrong, but their silence must not speak louder than their action.

It is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship.

We have an amazing tolerance for black pain and for too long after our slave ships landed in New Orleans, you know, we tolerated in the name of God slavery for 246 years.

Where was the National Guard and where were the helicopters, in Iraq, fortifying Iraq but leaving New Orleans exposed?

Indifference, incompetence or both and both are unacceptable.

Jackson says a call for Chavez's assassination by fundamentalist Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson last week is a criminal act.

I think he can. I think he must. I think this time Michael came close enough to the valley of the shadow of death to be able to see death, to almost touch hell and he chooses to go another way.

I don't think he can, not and survive the appearance of impropriety. In this case, the appearance was not the fact. It was not the evidence and so he survived this one but he must never subject himself again to this circumstance or the…

Some people are so blinded by the divisions of race and religion and class and political parties, they can't see what's on the other side of the wall.