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
It is racist to call American citizens refugees.
I've been in TV for a lot of years and I've never seen anything like them.
The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily,
This is the next stage of our struggle. The first stage was to end slavery. The second stage was to end legal Jim Crow. The third stage was the right to vote. The fourth stage is access to capital.
This light called Sweetness now belongs to heaven and to the ages. Thank God for Sweetness.
This Justice Department is dishonoring the commitment made in 1965.
A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the challenges to American elections.
First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.
They've been out there all day in the blistering sun. There is no bus picking them up because there is no destination for the people.
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
There's no excuse for it all and they should be dealt with immediately.
Some people's lives are worthy of taking the time to say goodbye to.
Africans in the hull of a slave ship.
If (Clinton) passed the moral test he had with Kosovo, he can pass this one as well.