"As New York Governor Mario Cuomo noted, Jackson campaigned in poetry while the others droned in prose. The poetry, however, had a purpose. Jackson’s genius was in presenting a complicated message and agenda in language that, as William Greider put it, 'had a beat so strong that even white folks can dance to it.'"
~ Robert L. Borosage
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/jesse-jackson-legacy-impact/
"His life’s work should inspire us not only to defeat the SAVE Act, confront ICE’s massive assault on civil rights, and overturn the assault on the social safety net, but to aspire to a better vision of America."
"Nobody saw more clearly the direction in which the Republican Party was heading than Jesse Jackson did, and nobody saw more clearly the eventual public policy failures of Democrats seeking to carve off conservative voters who already were in the process of losing their minds."
~ Charles Pierce
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70394068/jesse-jackson-dead/
"Donald Trump is the creature at the end of that road, and Jesse Jackson, who passed away on Tuesday morning, saw that before many allegedly shrewd political minds did. Sail on, Reverend. You were ... somebody."
"As New York Governor Mario Cuomo noted, Jackson campaigned in poetry while the others droned in prose. The poetry, however, had a purpose. Jackson’s genius was in presenting a complicated message and agenda in language that, as William Greider put it, 'had a beat so strong that even white folks can dance to it.'"
~ Robert L. Borosage
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/jesse-jackson-legacy-impact/
"The greatest testament to Jackson’s brilliance and his greatest legacy is that the mission, strategy, message and agenda of those campaigns remain directly relevant four decades later. …
His message focused on 'economic violence,' the violence done to working and poor people in an economy that then as today works for the few and not the many. He put forth a bold agenda to address real needs:"
