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
This Justice Department is dishonoring the commitment made in 1965.
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.
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the moral center, ... America's dream team of the Democratic Party.
we will not apologize even for slavery. We're hung up on that word, that kind of cultural wall.
The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily,
It was an unpopular decision to release them.
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.
I've been in TV for a lot of years and I've never seen anything like them.