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
We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
No lie can live forever.
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
I want to cut his nuts off.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
If I can make it, you can make it.
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.