Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson (b 1941), full name Jesse Louis Jackson, is a US civil rights activist and politician. He founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.

Wisdom & Quotes

• America is not like a blanket - one piece of unbroken cloth, the same colour, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - many patches, many pieces, many colours, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
• I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
• Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
• The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
• When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Erica Jong