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
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
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.
Your light challenges the darkness, ... Your light is being seen and your heat is being felt around the world. Thank you, Cindy Sheehan.
You need faith when storms come suddenly, so I really talked to Hillary and Chelsea about matters of faith and unconditional love,
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.
Africans in the hull of a slave ship.
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
I thought about Emmett Till, and I couldn't go back,
I say America: Stay out of the Bushes,
Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,