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
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Why are there no African Americans in that circle? ... How can blacks be left out of the leadership and trapped into the suffering?
I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership
The decision to change leaders over a failed system is no substantial change.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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.