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
most qualified and experienced candidate in a generation.
The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the moral center, ... America's dream team of the Democratic Party.
The clearer the distinction Kerry makes between himself and President Bush on this war, and the economy, the better off he will be.
If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.
He exudes a great sense of confidence in the jury as being fair. Michael anxiously awaits the jury's verdict, but anticipates acquittal.
First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.
He repeated that incendiary comparison a few days later, adding the ugly allegation that when churches were contacted about helping some of the victims, the first thing they wanted to know was, ''Are they black or white?
I hope that we've done something to facilitate a detente on threatening rhetoric,
He brings to the table a body of invaluable accomplishments as a former congressman, senator and vice president.
She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.
My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers' rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
They've been out there all day in the blistering sun. There is no bus picking them up because there is no destination for the people.
Right now it's as if Milosevic and Clinton are locked into a bear hug and neither can turn the other loose, ... This could very well be a kind of breakthrough.