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.
The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.
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.
We reduce this to Bill Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky, but what is at stake here, really, is the spirit of the nation, the mood of the nation, how the world sees our nation,
Those people are not walking the beat today (in Philadelphia), and that's good news.
We're losing too many of our children, ... I hope today isn't the end. Let's go back and get our communities together.
We are saddened by the passing of Rosa Parks. We rejoice in her legacy, which will never die. In many ways, history is marked as before, and after, Rosa Parks.
We are not going to compromise the Voting Rights Act.
We're not going to have an oil war.
The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.
We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.