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 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.
Of course, at the age of nineteen or twenty, she knows about sex, ... She's seen videos, watched television, listened to music. She knows what is expected in marriage, and knows what, in fact, happens.
Certainly I think the issue of race as a factor will not go away from this equation.
She's still struggling physically. She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to put her legs up to take away the stress. She still has playbacks about being in the war under those conditions, so she goes through these highs and lows of stress.
She's still struggling physically, ... She walks awhile, but she cannot walk long. She then has to put her legs up to take away the stress. She still has playbacks about being in the war under those conditions, so she goes through these highs and lows of stress.
She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.
She sat down in order that we might stand up.
Since 1963, much has changed in America and the world. And much remains the same. The struggle for fairness, equal protection, equal opportunity, self-determination, the struggle to defend the poor and the needy, a fairer distribution of wealth and resources, continues in the face of the hostility of the vested interests, power and domination of the few.
She never stopped fighting, fundamentally in her own way, she was a freedom fighter.
My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
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.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.