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.
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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 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 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.
Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even,
You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda.
The governor does not stand to gain from this matter being delayed. I've met with governors who are hostile and defensive and demagogic. He was none of that.
The good news is, she is a tough person and she is going to survive this.