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
Hymies." And "Hymietown.
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
Nobody will save us from us but us.
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
Surrender had played out for good with me.
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.