Current Wisdom/Jesse Jabber
Jackson, Jesse
SPECIAL CURRENT WISDOM JESSE JABBER As a public service for those American sophisticates who so plangently have proclaimed the Rev. Jackson foremost of all the Republic's orators, we hereby...
...With a made-up mind, which is the most powerful instrument in the world, you can rise above your circumstances...
...There is nothing more powerful than a made-up mind...
...We must know that unless God builds the house, they who labor, labor in vain...
...Educators must believe in themselves, in their will, and in their skill to educate and administer effectively...
...Save Our Children: Administration for Excellence, 1978] Hay fever season, 1983, and the incomparable Rev., shaking and sweating at the Lincoln Memorial, demonstrates to Old Abe that the evolution of American oratory did not stand still after Gettysburg: Make up your mind...
...The last sparks of intelligent thought suddenly go aglimmer: In other words, if a little baby falls in a bathtub full of water, that baby will drown and must live with the consequences of that decision...
...From a 1978 bull by the Rev...
...Don't leave anybody out...
...Teachers, but teachers who will teach for life and not merely for a living...
...At the worst you'll gain your self-respect, and at the best you'll help to save a nation...
...It is too costly, too dangerous, and too likely to take place...
...I'm too mature to be angry...
...We must believe in our children...
...no forest is too dense, and no water is too deep—if your mind is made up...
...right is might...
...Dukakis: It is too much to expect that I will go out in the field and be the champion vote picker and bale them up and bring them back to the big house and get a reward of thanks, while people who do not pick nearly as much votes, who don't carry the same amount of weight among the people, sit in the big house etc...
...We ought to teach our children—it is our moral responsibility...
...You must develop your mind to protect your behind, your body, and your soul...
...An American Whitman sings out: Finally, I want you to know that there's nothing more dangerous than to be trapped with a shrinking mind and an expanding behind...
...Run from disgrace t' amazing grace...
...But just because you were born in the slum does not mean that the slum was born in you...
...But we must close not only the quantitative gap but the qualitative gap as well...
...Bentsen: Q. Are you angry or upset that you were not chosen...
...July 9, 1981] Five mellifluous snatches of paralogistic genius presented by the Rev...
...Intercourse without discourse threatens this generation...
...But hold on to your dreams...
...Each of these pillars is now crumbling, the nation's foundation is shaking, and the people are in a state of panic...
...These five pillars were: (1) cheap labor, (2) cheap energy, (3) cheap raw materials, (4) an exploited labor market divided on the ideology of race or skin worship, and (5) expensive exports...
...Preachers, but preachers who will prophesy, not merely profiteer...
...up with hope" because we cannot be what we ought to be if we push dope in our veins rather than hope in our brains...
...Run from the outhouse to the statehouse to the courthouse to the White House...
...Believe in our ability to teach them and their ability to learn...
...Journalists, but journalists who will ascribe, describe, and prescribe, not merely scribble...
...A. No...
...The Rev...
...A candid moment after Governor Michael Dukakis has given Jesse short shrift and opted for the Hon...
...We must teach our children—it is today's imperative...
...Know that you are somebody, that you are God's child...
...Take the chains off of your ankles, but don't shift them to your mind...
...Peace is imperative...
...Peace is possible...
...But sex is not the only thrill in life...
...World leaders must initiate positive action, not just engage in negative reaction...
...August 27, 1983] Still more numinous rumble bumble from the Rev...
...It's not my aptitude but my attitude that determines my altitude, with a little intestinal fortitude...
...But with insight, you can see the brighter side...
...Jackson after due deliberation on being rejected for the vice presidency by Gov...
...After it cleared the Native Americans away through terrorist genocide, enslaved blacks as the first major American industry, annexed Hispanics against their will, the foundation of the five pillars was laid...
...Lawyers, but lawyers who are more concerned with justice than a judgeship...
...We must choose the human race over the nuclear race...
...I'm too controlled...
...With eyesight, you may see misery...
...as he wows the clinically insane at the 1984 Democratic convention: Jesus was rejected from the inn and born in the slum...
...July 17, 1984] Exhortatory vibrations from the most eminent mucous membrane to address the 1984 convention: The Rainbow includes disabled Americans...
...Sex is a thrill...
...You may lose if you run, but you're guaranteed to lose if you don't...
...The color "chrome" fits in the rainbow...
...Jesse, the modern Metternich: Peace requires justice and that we play the game by one set of rules...
...Jackson we glimpse the cranial chaos that has made him the Mussolini of American progressives: We must fight for equity, ethics, and excellence because it is the only way that we can catch up and close the gap...
...No mountain is too high, and no valley is too low...
...The disabled have their handicap revealed and their genius concealed, while the able-bodied have their genius revealed and their disability concealed...
...Twenty-five years ago when Senator Joseph McCarthy and the McCarthy movement were threatening free speech, a generation of youth rebelled and protested, fighting for free speech—and that was a thrill...
...Jackson foremost of all the Republic's orators, we hereby present a choice selection of Jesse's jabber...
...My approach to foreign policy is to engage in negotiations, not confrontations...
...Run toward freedom...
...The nuclear race must end...
...But ultimately we must judge people by their values and their contribution...
...July 12, 1988] The euphuistic Rev...
...We must believe that life is not accidental but providential, that it has meaning and purpose if we will but hold on and seek a new and brighter day...
...July 12, 1984] Historical reflection presented by the Rev...
...to the Tenth Annual convention of PUSH as the roof falls in: America was built on five economic and social pillars...
...We must close the gap with doctors, but doctors who are more concerned with public health than personal wealth...
...Politicians, but politicians who seek to be of service, not merely seek an office...
...Those of us who are behind must run faster because we are behind in a race for educational and economic equity and parity...
...at the "What's Happening" Teen Conference of 1978, when the Pericles of modern American oratory was just raising his first yelps: And so we say, "Down with dope...
...July 14, 1988] THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1988 51...
...I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse...
...We can teach our children—it is possible...
...For in the final analysis, we do not live by bread alone...
...If a six-year-old innocent, wonderful little child steps in front of a moving car, that child will most likely be killed because that child must live with the consequences of that decision...
...I am focused on what we must do to keep hope alive...
...provides still another candidate for Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: History teaches us that ultimately might is not right...
...I'm too clear...
Vol. 21 • September 1988 • No. 9
