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
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.