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
That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores. Where Mayor Daley saw a toll collector, Mr. Johnson saw a communicator.
If (Clinton) passed the moral test he had with Kosovo, he can pass this one as well.