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
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.
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.
My experience has been whenever captured soldiers are released, it at least creates a window for dialogue.
We're simply saying to Wall Street corporations ... we expect you to open up the market place, ... We (African-Americans) have good products, services, talent and capital. Let us in.
What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.
We go as independent religious leaders, as private citizens, not with the support of our government. But I'm sure they hope we are successful in our appeal.
We want to do more than see them and take the messages from their relatives from who we have talked. We want to gain their freedom.
Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even,
You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda.
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
We will be there for as long as we have been in South Korea.