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
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Race designation is a political designation.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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.