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
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn't go back,
Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.
If the trip was sanctioned by the president, it would be defeated before we leave.
He repeated that incendiary comparison a few days later, adding the ugly allegation that when churches were contacted about helping some of the victims, the first thing they wanted to know was, ''Are they black or white?
He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.
We must democratize access to health care, education, and housing. Without an agenda of economic security, democracy is just recycling poverty.
Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers' rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.
He exudes a great sense of confidence in the jury as being fair. Michael anxiously awaits the jury's verdict, but anticipates acquittal.
He does not want to eat in fact on the table of those who would kill him,
What has not changed is the ballistics report saying the gun that Mr. Graham had is not the one that killed Mr. Lambert, that has not changed, the lack of positive identification has not changed, the lack of cross-examination has not changed, inadequate legal representation has not changed,
We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.
We are at a tug of war over American values. Our nation must lead with superior ideas and sacrifices, not with guns and bombs.