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
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're losing too many of our children, ... I hope today isn't the end. Let's go back and get our communities together.
These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, ... They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
I hope that he will, in time, that he will say more, ... Face the Nation.
I hope the FCC does not remain silent regarding what Robertson said,
I hope that we've done something to facilitate a detente on threatening rhetoric,
To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, ... She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.
Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership and trapped into the suffering?
Why are there no African Americans in that circle?
We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.
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 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.