Bridge Quote by Shelby Steele

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

— Darryl Glenn

“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” published in The Fire Next Time in 1963 (the…

— Carolina De Robertis

“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions. Appeals. It's…

— Sara Collins

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

— Ann Richards

Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned…

— Rainbow Rowell

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

— Patricia McConnell

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

— D. B. Sweeney

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

— Mark Steyn

Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

— Yvette Clarke

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.

— Ted Nugent