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
Hovering above us is a certain degree of sadness. There's been another murder at the hands of officers of the state. And what do we want? We want the truth to be told. We want justice served, and the laws to be adhered to.
He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.