Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Jesse Jackson quotes about
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
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.
I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.
We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.
Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.