“So there's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.”— Jesse Jackson, pbs.orgTagged: classism, Race in America
“My concern was even then that the Panthers were imitating by and large third world models like Cuba or like Che Guevara, who was very popular at that time. But of course, in Cuba they could go into the hills. They could engage in various forms and forums that you could not use in urban America.”— Jesse Jackson, pbs.orgTagged: Black Panther Party, Militant Groups