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
It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.
I hope that he will, in time, that he will say more, ... Face the Nation.
Part of our mission is to finish unfinished business.
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
We need millions more to act and react to what we saw in the gulf. Images were burned into our consciousness.
We go as independent religious leaders, as private citizens, not with the support of our government. But I'm sure they hope we are successful in our appeal.
What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.
we will not apologize even for slavery. We're hung up on that word, that kind of cultural wall.
We will be there for as long as we have been in South Korea.
We want to do more than see them and take the messages from their relatives from who we have talked. We want to gain their freedom.
The good news is, she is a tough person and she is going to survive this.
We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.
We began to talk about one's faith and the storm.
Why are there no African Americans in that circle?