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The charismatic U.S. civil rights leader, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, died at age of 84 on February 17.
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See, I saw that. >> Wait a minute. >> How’s it going, brother? >> Doing well. That’s what she did. Fix the phone for that camera. >> Yes, the line is pretty long. I’d say several hundred people easily. >> Everybody smile. >> My brother. >> Hey, how’s it going guys? Yeah, doing well. >> Good morning. >> Morning. >> Good morning. Good morning. Morning. >> Do your thing. Do your thing. I walk from 48 Street and I walked my car down. >> There you go. Same. Yeah. >> I haven’t got my credential from them yet, though. which emphasized the >> univilized era of deterioration. >> Is it all right if I grab some box while we are live or would you rather me win it? Just show the line. I’m not talking. >> This is my first time here. Excuse me. >> Oh no, I think they blurred your face. >> The struggles that he made. Watch the casket. What’s up, man? >> Get your pictures. $10. Okay. Okay. Change able. Everybody talk That’s another question. I don’t feel like I did, but Hey, I’m trying to I was just afraid. Yeah. Yeah. That is a blessing. That’s right. got here about 9:00 in the city of Chicago. Jim, sorry. >> Oh, you’re good, dude. >> So, very easily very much look like I’m not planning it. >> Standing here the whole time. >> Yeah, exactly. >> There’s another camera in front of you. Like, that’s not what we want. >> Especially with no interior shot. >> I like how that guy looked at your camera. He’s like, “Yeah, I want to set up.” >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, we’re not very we’re not very considered all the time. >> You know what? I’m glad you said it. >> Still still a mushroom even today. Yeah, it’s not >> Oh, they’re >> I had one of them hit me in the back of the head with their camera cuz I was in their way. Some of them >> I personally want to shoot video. >> Yeah. >> You know, I bring out this camera and it’s like >> pulling bows, baby. is just left. >> So, >> yeah, they they went like that way. I’m assuming to go to their car. >> That’s a good question. I would be annoying. >> It’s probably >> cuz they’re pumping heat. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It’s This is interesting. Sure. >> So, actually, yeah. >> Really? >> How do you how what’s >> You’re not going to like There’s no way I can not do this. >> That must be >> Exactly. It’s not going to happen. morning. Sun is glad it’s here, but man. >> Yeah, >> there we go. That’s good. >> Had to do some major color correcting. >> Yeah, tell me about it. It was just overblown highlights in orange and real dark shadows in blue. >> Yep. >> So >> same. >> Beautiful shot. >> Dude, it’s always this winter light. The winter light’s so bad, man. >> I agree, >> dude. I was down in Louisiana shooting party and just like once you you go far enough south, the light is just great. 72, >> dude. It was like 70° the whole time, man. >> You came back. Hey, how’s it going? >> Well, we were driving down there cuz I met my friend in Oklahoma City and we drove all the way down. We drove along like a tornado line and I was like, well, you know, double dip. >> Well, he did tornado chasing. He went with um these guys that were studying Yale last year for New York Times. He got crazy crazy photos, but they haven’t even run the the piece yet. He shot it like last March. >> Wow. I wonder what’s going on. >> They took their time and then like three other outlets like posted like the same article, so I don’t know if they spiked it or not. But he’s got a photo of a tornado landing in the middle of like a dirt road like in the distance. And they use these like super powerful lights to get the hail coming down at like whatever a million frames a second. And they’re good, but I think they’re like good. Oh, dude. It’s a bummer. >> So, now he’s like, “Dude, I have an in with like the vehicle that’s like an armored car.” He’s like, “If you want to come with the storm case like so Hey, how you doing, man? It’s been a minute. >> Okay. I went to many. >> I saw you’re famous TV stand. >> Oh, yeah. It wasn’t bad. Well, to be fair, I left like earlier that week. So, I thought it was like and like everybody left the day before Friday. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean for that dude. Yeah. Cancel my flight too. Well, like Seth Harold was out there and then honestly it was like the two Getty guys and like three New York Time New York Times people and like everyone else is following you. So, cuz I got in and the day after I got in, they had to shut the guy in the lake at night and they had a standoff and then I drove around for thousand miles for like the next six days and they didn’t give a goddamn thing and I was like I’m going to eat it. Sharpen the riser. >> Sharpen the riser. How are you? Yeah. saw that. Oh, no. Hey, >> morning. Right. Turn around. Look. back in. All right, >> you guys. He was a slave. Good save. I I threw in today with the Jackson family as we prepare to memorialize and continue the work of the most consequential bill. had in the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. I’ve known Reverend Jackson since I was 12 years old. Our pastor brought me to Read Basket New York. I became Jack when I was 13 New York. I’ve seen him stand up against adversity. I’ve seen him break history. There would not have been a Democratic party the way it is today had it not been changing that open the door to Barack Obama, his international what he’s done for all of us. He’s in the crowd. I can’t right now unfortunately, but maybe in a little bit. >> I’m told to just show the line. I’m not allowed to talk to anybody. Thank you. Don’t you trip on that? >> She worried about you. >> I’m trying to get workman’s cop. I’m joking. >> I need to put this lower down. You can’t make you’re nothing. You’re from nobody subass when you see my name goes in nomination. >> Your name goes in nomination. I was born in Islam but Islam is not born in me. and one more than you and you can make it. >> You can make it. >> Pull your head high. Stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark, but the morning check me. Think he going to show up? >> Such a great I’m good. I’m good. How about you? >> Right. Right. Right. You see me? >> Oh, okay. All right. Okay. >> I I’d like to fly out of uh the warning. B was announced receiving the state legislation because it conscious objection to the Vietnam War. A city that through it black universities have graduated more black students than any city in the world. Atlanta intersection. That’s the challenge of our party tonight. Left wing, right? >> Excuse me. I’m so sorry. Excuse me. >> No, I know, right? >> Oh, yeah. Good call. >> Oh, it’s good. It’s okay. >> Okay. Excuse me. L A W. Thank you. Love y’all. So, Re Jackson was a member of fellowship. Y’all be safe. >> All right, y’all. Stay warm. >> Thank you. Love you. Got to be happy. Go ahead and go. I have a big We got one. That’s amazing. Execute here. They have Good morning. >> Good morning. We’re going to start our program shortly. >> Opening the doors to the general public shortly. We’re going to start with a prayer. So, if you are standing and moving, please stop moving as we start with a prayer from Reverend Dates. >> We’re going to do a prayer morning. We are going to start with a prayer from Reverend Dates. And I want to remind this group there is no photos. We’re going to share that with the general public. There are no dates. Could you join me on stage to take this week of prayer? >> Please stop moving for prayer. >> Yes. They stand. Yeah. Trying to get your attention. Jackson’s graces bow our hands together. Close your eyes. Father has taken everything. Word says that as he comes on this giant mountain something inspiring and refreshing. Yeah, I see towards the front too. >> Amazing. Yeah. I don’t know. Actually, >> it could be. >> I can also see them make them go back there. >> I can see the way. I saw a news crew go over there. Somebody’s anticipating that. >> Good morning, everybody. >> God bless you. Thank you all so much for being here. We’re getting ready to get started shortly. I want to welcome you to the beginning of the celebrations of life for our beloved Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson. As we prepare this Lion State ceremony and welcome you in, we want to invite you to move in throughout the building. Please pay your respects to Reverend Jackson and continue to move throughout the facility. You will see some people sitting. Those are family members and those are members of Reverend Jackson’s staff. And so that’s reserved for them to sit. And so we would kindly ask that you pay your respects. Show your love. As y’all know, Reverend Jackson love all of us so much. >> And so, thank y’all so much again for being here. God bless you and much love. Oh, no photos, please. No photos on the inside, please. No photos on the inside. >> Cell phones and pockets, please. Um, at the request of Mrs. Jackson and the Jackson children. Thank y’all so much. >> God bless you. What did we say? We gonna hold our hands up. >> Oh, yeah. Keep up alive. >> Keep up alive. >> All right, y’all. Oh, look at them. They up, baby. You know, we part of this part of this >> all individuals in the aisle need to move out of the aisles, please. >> I am somebody. >> I am somebody. >> I am somebody. I am somebody. >> Amen. >> I am >> I am somebody. >> I am somebody. >> I am somebody. I am >> somebody. >> Keep hope >> alive. >> Keep hope >> alive. >> Keep hope >> alive. >> Keep hope >> alive. Start opening the gate. I’m sure you have pretty much heard little by little. Nobody’s going to get in. We’ll do 15 to 20 at a time. Okay. All right. >> Right here. right here. Turn off right here. >> There are three metal detectors. Stand behind. All right. That’s not the I miss. >> Thank you for coming. Let’s go. and one. your hand. Let me I I was just about to talk to somebody with the cell phone in your hand. >> Yes. I’m going give it right in your hand. Come on here. >> Yes. Come on. >> All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Thank you very much. Straight in. Straight in. Come on. Straight in. >> Keys and cell phone in your hand. We’ll see you. >> Thank you, ma’am. Appreciate you. >> Yeah. Hey, they don’t have the Democracy as market share people have access. >> I mean, >> how do you even describe? >> I mean, he’s he’s the best of what you heard that our minister, community organizer, protester, revolutionary supering. Amen. Everybody deliver us. Justice. Now we will hear from Darius Brooks and Willie Rogers of formerly of the Soulsters. I was born Just like the river I’ve been running ever long, but I I change in afraid It’s been a long long time coming change. I go I go brother and I said brother brother brother then he winds up Knock down belong. I think I’m able to carry on. It’s coming. Another verse there. to the movies. We used to go down, but the people told us they didn’t want ushere. But look what darling long. I go to my brother and I brother help me please help me please. But then he wind up knocking me. Yeah. back down on my knees. There’s been times that I’ve done I couldn’t feel I feel good now. Oh my my my my Lord. It’s been a long long time coming, but I know my going. Oh, thank you, Lord. Lord favor my where you are across the glor. I will do you for your glory. to see you as my favor. Just ask >> my heart’s >> cryp For your glory, for your glory, for your glory, oh God, we need your glory. I will do anything. I really want to see you to behold your >> dwelling in your said I got to be where you are. >> I need your glory. I got to be where you are. For your glory. to see you. I need to see you are Get away. Reverend Bobby. Reverend Bobby. I’m sorry. You can keep it up. Reverend Darren. Sorry. Do you want me to have Heat. Heat. and blue star. Today we celebrate the legacy of the Reverend Jesse Jackson and thank you for everything you’ve done in the fight as well. >> It’s been my honor and pleasure. Thank you. Absolutely. All right, we’re going to have more for you throughout the day for the Rainbow Push podcast. We’ll catch you later. >> We’re live right now. >> Hey guys. Hey. Hey guys. I’m sorry. Uh hey guys. Brandon Pope here. uh for uh award I’m gonna kind of kind of getting caught off guard here. Uh we are live right now Brandon Pope award-winning journalist for the Rainbow Push Coalition podcast here to celebrate the life and legacy of the great Reverend Jesse Jackson Senior and everything he has done to uplift not just Chicagoans but Americans and the world. Really an incredible time for all of us. We just had a great conversation with Marty King. Are we continuing that conversation with Marty King? Okay, we’ll continue that conversation uh with Marty King here. Marty King, uh you grew up with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senior. You were uh reflecting earlier on some stories that you’ve had of the of the Freedom Fight. Can you for us uh tell us some more? Give me give me a story of some good times you and the >> in the going Oh, he love basketball and I love basketball. So if Kobe scored 40 that night, I knew I was going to get a phone call and he’s going to be talking about how he got the 40. But no, he would take us to basketball games and baseball games and football games and concerts and Oh, I mean, he he loved to show us the world. I mean, that’s one thing that will be priceless that he gave us was the time, the individual time he spent with each of us as staff members, as family members, and how kind he was and how he never got offended. Even when people would come up to him because they didn’t know him and they’d say something, you know, not pleasant, he would still be pleasant. And that he taught me patience. He taught me grace. He had a lot of grace for people. Mhm. >> I mean, this is a man who taught me that I’d rather survive off the the oxygen of grace versus the carbon dioxide of thanks. That grace is your actions. Thanks is just words. >> And he lived by it. I mean, so many times people would say things that were just a little overwhelming. And he would not he wouldn’t push back. >> Yeah. >> He would not push back. He was very kind, thoughtful. call you on your birthday. If you’re in the hospital, he’s coming to see you. I mean, I was in the hospital, I think, for three days in San Francisco. He took a flight from New York to San Francisco and stayed with me all night. >> Um, back in 2000, I want to say that’s 2009. Um, sitting courtside sometimes at the game or sitting in the box was fun, but I mean, it was really all about the work. But when we would travel internationally, he would at least allow one or two hours for us to visit that city and its culture, that state and its culture. But we were there to work and he was always on a mission. He did not take vacation. I can’t think of one time over 45 years I’ve known him that he would take vacation. I just I can’t remember it. Everything was about work. Even when we were supposed to have a retreat, we were working. Even when we were sitting by the pool, maybe in a nice climate, he was dictating notes. He was studying. He was asking for information. I mean, he was always preparing for the next interview, for the next discussion, for the next debate, for the next um uh situation where we had to negotiate either with striking workers or corporate America. He was always plotting and planning a way to to move America and the world progressively forward. I mean just a workhorse like that. A tireless worker. It’s interesting because we don’t hear a lot of stories about that context about how hard he was working. I think we kind of assume and know because of all the work we see put forward. But what you’re saying is nothing up at 4:30, 5:00 in the morning on the phone making connections, making phone calls. Um, and then go to bed about 10:30, 11 o’clock at night and start all over again. Seven days a week, 365 days a year. Did not take a sick day. Never took a day off up until even when we discovered that he had super a super nuclear pausy. He still came to work every day. >> I mean, most people won’t know that, but he still came to work every day. On Sundays, we do three or four churches in two or three different cities. That night we would debrief on what was going to come up for the next week. I mean, I’ve ne he was the hardest working man in the world. Period. There’s no doubt about it. >> A tireless worker for our people. Uh Marty King, thank you so much for your reflections, for your time, for your storytelling, and for helping us celebrate the life and legacy of of Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senior. Really appreciate you. >> Thank you for having me. >> All right. We’ll have more with the uh Rainbow Push podcast and reflections and celebration of the life of Reverend Jesse Jackson senior throughout the day. >> Okay. All right. What the difference was? There he is. Thank you. I think Congratulations. Good morning. As you all continue to move around and view the remains of Reverend Jackson. We’re going to extend to you another prayer. And we ask that you move quietly, but that you can continue to move. Oh God, our God, how gracious is your name. Our Father, our God of freedom. We come before you now with hearts, some that are heavy, yet all that are grateful. Heavy God because we feel the weight of loss. Yet grateful because we have witnessed a life that was poured out like a drink offering for justice. One for dignity, one for life, for the least, for the lost and the left out. Lord God, we thank you for the life and legacy of Reverend Jackson, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Senior, a servant who stood in a long line of prophets, a voice that would not be silenced, a vessel you anointed to cry aloud and spare not. So God, we bless you for the courage that you placed in him, for the fire you kept in his bones, and for the compassion that flowed through his heart. God, you allowed him to walk alongside giants, to stand with giants, to labor in the movement for civil rights, to found this the rainbow push coalition, to run toward broken places when others ran away, God, but more than titles, more than platforms, we thank you for the spirit of perseverance that marked his life And so today God as he lie in state we declare he does not lie in defeat but he lie in dignity not in silence but in testimony. For the word declares in Psalms 116 and 15 precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. And so on today heaven receives a freedom fighter. And so now, God, we ask for your continued comfort for this family. We ask you to continue to wrap your arms around Miss Jackson, the children, the grandchildren, and all of us who love Reverend Jackson. Be our peace in this moment. And let us feel the prayers of the magnitude that are praying around this nation. God, we ask for strength, not merely to mourn his passing, but to mantle his mission. And so stir up in this generation that same holy boldness. Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us not grow weary in welloing, but let us lift every voice until every valley is exalted and every mountain of injustice is made low. So we thank you for a life well-lived. We thank you for the battle that was fought. We thank you for the bridges that was built and we thank you for the hope that was preached. And God, when this day is done, may it be said that Reverend Jackson kept the faith. And so now unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and to you, God, who is able to pre present us faultless before your glory with exceeding joy. God, we give you honor. We give you glory and we give you praise. It is in the mighty, matchless, miraculous and marvelous name of Jesus the people of God said together, “Amen.” Amen and amen. God bless you. As we continue to pray, the most holy and everlasting God, our father, we gather today with grateful hearts for the life of the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior. Thank you that what could have crippled him cultivated him. What could have silenced him strengthened him. You turned his pain into purpose and his trials into triumph. Through his voice, the voiceless were heard. Through his courage, hope stayed alive. Comfort his family now. Strengthen his children and grandchildren. Wrap your everlasting arms around Mrs. J. be her peace in the quiet and her strength in the days ahead. Father, grant us holy succession. Raise up prophets to carry Reverend Jackson’s mantle. Raise up leaders who will not bow to fear nor bend to justice, bend to injustice. Let courage rise. Let conviction burn again. As his body lies in state, we declare his spirit rests in you. For to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. This is not the end. Death does not have the final word. You do. So until that great morning, help us live with courage, walk in purpose, and keep hope alive in the name of the one who opened blinded eyes and unstopped deaf ears. The one who was crucified by the empire and nailed to a Roman cross in the name of the one who was buried in a bar tomb and got up on that third day morning with all power in his hand. Power over sin, power over death, and power over the empire. In that risen and reigning name, in the name of Jesus our Christ, we pray. Amen. beautiful day. It is a new day. It is a day of black awareness. It is a day of black people taking care of black people’s business. Today we are together. We are unified and on one accord. But when we are together, we got power and we can make decisions. >> Today on this program, more volume on that, please. >> Gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz. All those are just labels. We know that music is music. All of our people got a soul. Our experience determines the texture, the taste, and the sound of our soul. We say that we may be in the slum, but the slum is not in us. We may be in prison, but the prison is not in us. In what? We have shifted from burn baby bind to learn baby learn. We have shifted from having a seizure about what the man got to seizing what we need. We have shifted from bed bugs and dog kicks to community control and politics. That is why we gather today to celebrate our homecoming and our own sense of somebodyness. That is why I challenge you now to stand together. Raise your fists together and engage in our national black literary. Do it with courage and determination. I am >> I am >> somebody. >> Somebody >> I am >> I am >> somebody. I may be poor. >> I may be poor. >> But I am somebody. >> I may be a welfare. >> I may be a welfare, >> but I am I am somebody. >> I may be a skilled >> I may be >> but I am >> I am somebody. >> I am >> I am >> beautiful. >> proud. >> I must be respected. I must be >> I must be protected. >> I must be protected. >> What time is it >> when we stand together? What time is that? >> When we say no more yes, what time is it? >> What time is it? >> What time is that? >> Sister Kim Weston, the black national anthem. You know, I I look at a lot of these theories that a lot of the social workers come up with and they say, “Now, the reason a negro can’t learn says his daddy’s gone and his mama is pitiful and he doesn’t understand anything about education and not much food in his refrigerator and his rats all in the house.” And that’s the reason he can’t learn. And so we read all that mess and then we come to school and a group of black folk come to classroom and the teacher sing guilty. Said, “Well, these poor old pitiful negroes.” You see, they got all these heartaches and trials and tribulations and they so pitiful. And now I got to stand up here and try to teach them how to read and write and count. If we can run faster and jump higher and shoot a basketball straight off of inadequate diets, then we can read and write and count and think of those same diets. All that can happen. You want somebody who marched for you to get the right to vote, you got a choice. You want somebody who challenged corporate America to hire you and did your contracts? You got a choice. >> It’s choice time. >> All this talk about qualification. >> What the blacks know about foreign policy? It’s an insult. >> I was three years old. I came into my consciousness. My daddy was coming home from the war. >> Foreign policy. If he was so dumb, how to get over there and get back. If he didn’t know foreign policy, why they give him a gun? And when they gave it to him, he knew which way to shoot. We know foreign policy. When you buy Honda and Toyota, that’s foreign policy. That’s right. >> Russian Vodka, that’s foreign policy. Count Sunday, that’s foreign policy. Merced with his be that’s foreign policy. As a matter of fact, we came here on a foreign policy. >> Yeah, I know y’all in a hurry. I’m going to leave it now. It’s time >> for a new course, >> a new coalition, a new leadership. >> Somebody got to rise above race, >> rise above sex, >> a new leadership, >> a choice, >> a chance. >> Don’t cry by what you don’t have. Use what you got. Reagan won the last time. Not by genius. >> Reagan won when we were asleep. He won by the margin of despair. He won by the margin the fracture of our coalition. He won by the margin of racial division. He won by default. >> I close with another story. There’s a little shepherd boy named David. >> All right. >> Everybody in town was scared of Goliath. >> Philadelphia, your time has come. >> Don’t stop at the mayor’s office. go on higher >> because you must never forget that about the time we began to take over cities, Nixon shifted the power to the suburbs >> and now Reagan shifted it to the states. >> So you got males with more and more responsibility and less and less power. >> We got more and more folk and fewer and fewer services. We cannot stop. We got to rise on higher. >> Little baby. Little David, >> Little David >> took off his unnecessary garments. >> Little David >> didn’t want to get weighted down a lot of foolishness. >> Little David took what God gave him, a slingshot and a God biscuit, a rock. Our problem today is David. reason we go organize Pennsylvania and win because we’re gonna stop the rocks. >> Go ahead. >> It’s been laying around and pick them up. >> That’s right. >> In 1980, Reagan won Massachusetts by 2500 votes. >> There were over 100,000 students unregistered, over 50,000 blacks, >> over 50,000 Hispanics. He won by 2500 >> T Kennedy state rocks >> just laying around. >> He won Illinois by 300,000 votes, >> 800,000 unregistered blacks, 500,000 Hispanics. >> Rocks rocks >> just laying around. >> You won. In 1980, 3 million high school students unregistered to vote. Now they’ve been registered to draft rocks just laying around. 11 million college students who could have chosen jobs over jails, police over wall, they didn’t vote. >> Now they’re crying. just laying around. >> Reagan won eight southern states >> by 182,000 votes >> when there were 3 million unregistered blacks in them same eight states. >> Rocks >> just laying around. >> He won New York by 165,000 votes. >> 600,000 students unregistered. >> 900,000 blacks. 600,000 Hispanics rocks just laying around. 1980 Reagan won Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes, 400,000 students unregistered, >> more than 600,000 blacks unregistered. Reagan won Pennsylvania by the margin of despair, by the margin of the fracture of our coalition. Your time has come. Pick up your slingshot. Pick up your rock. Declare, “Our time has come. A new day has begun. Red, yellow, black, and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight. Our time has come. When peace like a river attended my way. Wherever sorrows like sea below whatever my Ladies and gentlemen, When like a river whenever sorrows like below builds road whatever my heart thou has taught me to say >> it is well it is well with my soul my soul It is well >> with my soul. >> Yes, it is well. >> It is well with my soul. Thank you Lord. My sin. Oh, the bliss of this glorious thought that my sin not in part but my home. My sin was to count his cross. The only thing When peace like a river attended my When sorrows like sea billows rover my heart thou has taught me say it is well. It is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well. It is well with is my soul. my sin. Oh, the bliss of this glorious thought that my sin not in part but the whole. My sin was nailed to Calary’s cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, oh my soul. It is well. with my soul. It is well. It is well with my soul. Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be silent. And your thoughts will be brought back as a stroll. The trump shall be sound and the Lord shall be sing my soul. Jesus makes it well. Well with my soul. It is well. It’s well with my soul. He makes it well. Well with my soul is well with my soul today. It is well. It is well with my soul. It is well. bled too much. >> Bled too much. >> Die too young. >> Die too young. >> Be where we are today. >> Be where we are today. >> Going forward. >> Going forward. >> By hope >> by hope. >> Not backwards. >> Not backwards. >> By fear. >> By fear. Let me say this to you that for many of us the stunning stopped last Tuesday. Every hole is not a graveyard. This struggle is not over. I believe in a one person one vote democracy. Therefore we are the winners. A lot of focus on what went wrong in the campaign. We get a 2 million vote plural rising. That’s winning. Tonight we come together bound by our faith in a mighty God with genuine respect and love for our country and inheriting the legacy of a great party. the Democratic Party, which is the best hope for redirecting our nation on a more humane, just, and peaceful course. This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race. We are gathered here this week to nominate a candidate and adopt a platform which will expand, unify, direct and inspire our party and the nation to fulfill this mission. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They have voted in record numbers. They have invested the faith, hope, and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care. I pledge my best not to let them down. There is the call of conscience. Redemption, expansion, healing, and unity. Leadership must heed the call of conscience. Redemption, expansion, healing, and unity. For they are the key to achieving our mission. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. No generation can choose the age or circumstance in which it is born. But through leadership, it can choose to make the age in which it is born an age of enlightenment, an age of jobs and peace and justice. Only leadership that intangible combination of gifts, discipline, information, circumstance, courage, timing, will and divine inspiration can lead us out of the crisis in which we find ourselves. Leadership can mitigate the misery of our nation. Leadership can part the waters and lead our nation in the direction of the promised land. leadership can lift the boats stuck at the bottom. I’ve had the rare opportunity to watch seven men and then to prow out their souls offer their service and heal and heed the call of duty to direct the course of our nation. There is a proper season for everything. There is a time to sew and a time to reap. There’s a time to compete and a time to cooperate. I ask for your vote on the first ballot as a vote for a new direction for this party and this nation. A vote of conviction, a vote of conscience. But I will be proud to support the nominee of this convention for the president of the United States of America. I have I have watched the leadership of our party develop and grow. My respect for both Mr. Mandel and Mr. Hart is great. I’ve watched them struggle with the crosswinds and crossfires of being public servants and I believe they will both continue to try to serve us faithfully. I’m elated by the knowledge that for the first time in our history, a woman Geraldine Ferrero will be recommended to share ticket. Throughout this campaign, I’ve tried to offer leadership to the Democratic Party and the nation. If in my high moments I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope, or stirred some runs of apathy and indifference, or in any way along the way helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain. for friends who loved and cared for me and for a God who spared me and for a family who understood. I am eternally grateful. If in my low moments in word, deed or attitude through some error of temper, taste, or tone, I’ve caused anyone discomfort, created pain, or revived someone’s fears that was not my truest self. If there were occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my jaw bale lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. >> Ready on the stomp? >> Okay, here we go. I am >> I am >> somebody. >> Somebody >> I am >> I am >> somebody. >> somebody. >> I may be poor. I may be poor, >> but I am >> I am >> I am >> somebody. >> somebody. >> I may be young. >> I may be young, >> but I am >> But I am >> somebody. >> somebody. >> I may be on welfare. >> I may be on >> but I am >> But I am >> somebody. >> somebody. >> I may be small. >> I may be small. >> But I am >> But I am >> somebody. >> Somebody. >> I may make a mistake. >> I may make a mistake, >> but I am. >> But I am >> somebody. >> Somebody. My clothes are different. >> My clothes are different. >> My face is different. >> My face is different. >> My hair is different. >> My hair is different. >> But I am >> But I am >> somebody. >> Somebody. >> I am black. >> I am black. >> Brown. >> Brown. >> White. >> White. >> I speak a different language. >> I speak a different language. >> But I must be respected. >> But I must be respected. >> Protected. >> Protected. >> Never rejected. >> Never rejected. I am >> I am >> God’s child. >> God’s child. >> I am >> I am >> somebody. >> Somebody. >> Give yourself a big hand. >> Why can I challenge you this way? Jesse Jackson, you don’t understand my situation. You’ll be on television. You don’t understand. I see with you with the big people. You don’t you don’t understand my situation. I understand. You see me on TV, but you don’t know the meter makes me me. They wonder why does Jesse run? Because they see me running for the White House. They don’t see the house I’m running from. I have a story. I wasn’t always on television. >> Writers were not always outside my door. When I was born late one afternoon, October 8th in Greenville, South Carolina, no writers asked my mother her name. Nobody chose to write down our address. A mama was not supposed to make it. And I was not supposed to make it. You see, I was born a teenage mother. Who was born a teenage mother? I understand. I know abandonment and people being mean to you and saying you’re nothing and nobody and can never be anything. I understand. Jesse Jackson is my third name. I’m adopted. When I had no name, my grandmother gave me her name. My name was Jesse Burns till I was 12. So I wouldn’t have a blank space. She gave me a name to hold me over. I understand when nobody knows your name. I understand when you have no name. I understand. I wasn’t born in the hospital. Mama didn’t have insurance. I was born in the bed at house. I really do understand. Born in a three- room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop job by the bed, no hot and cold running water. I understand. Wallpaper used for decoration. No, for a windbreaker. I understand. I’m a working person’s person. That’s why I understand you. Whether you’re a black or white, I understand work. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had a shovel programmed for my hand. My mother a working woman. Some of the days she went to work early with Ron’s in her stockings. She knew better. But she rolled in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school. I understand. At 3:00 on Thanksgiving day, we couldn’t eat turkey because mama was pan somebody else’s turkey at 3:00. We had to play football to entertain ourselves. And then around 6:00 she would get off the after Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey leftovers, the caucus, the cranberries around 8:00 at night. I really do understand every one of these funny labels they put on you. Those of you who are watching this broadcast tonight in the projects on the corners, I understand. Call you outcast, low down, you can’t make it. You’re nothing. you from nobody. Subclass, underclass. When you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination. I was born in the slum, but the slum was not born in me. And it wasn’t born in you. And you can make it. Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high. Stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don’t you surrender. Suffering breeds. Character. Character breeds. Faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint. You must not surrender. You may or may not get there, but just know that you are qualified. And you’ll hold on and hold out. We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive on the mother of the night and be the young. Keep hope alive. I love you very much. I love you very much. I can learn. It is possible that I ought to learn. It is the moral thing to do. It is possible. It is imperative that I learn. A teacher ought to say I can teach. I ought to teach. I must teach. And thus we start with a very attitudinal premise. And we often say that it is not your aptitude but your attitude that determines your altitude with a little intestinal fortitude. We must live with the consequences of our decisions. If we spend three hours a night in front of a TV being entertained rather than three hours a night trying to learn how to read, write, and think, we will live with the consequences of that decision. If we become weak and superficial and use pill power and cop out rather than willpower and cope with, we live with the consequences of that decision. If we become isolated from the real world rather than insulated from it because we’re tough on the inside, it’s nothing but a choice. So repeat this after me. If my mind can conceive it, >> if my mind can conceive it, >> and my heart can believe it. >> If my heart can believe it, >> I know I can achieve it. >> I know I can achieve it. >> Because I am >> Because I am >> somebody. >> Somebody. >> I am. >> I am. >> Somebody >> somebody. >> Respect me. >> respect me. >> Protect me. Neglect me. >> Never neglect me. >> Never neglect me. >> I am. >> I am. >> Something about it. >> Somebody >> down the dope. >> Down. >> Up the hole. >> Up the >> downp. >> I can learn anything. >> I can learn anything >> in the world. >> In the world. >> Nobody. >> Nobody >> will save us. >> To save us. >> From us. >> From us. >> For us. >> For us. >> But us. >> But us. >> I can learn. >> I can learn. >> It is possible. >> It is possible. >> I ought to learn. >> I ought to learn. >> It is marvelous. It is tomorrow. >> I must learn. >> I must learn. >> It is imperative. >> It is imperative. >> Right on. >> Right on. >> Ladies and gentlemen, Minister Gator. Father God, we bless your name on today, dear God. A day that you have made since creation of time. And father, we come at this solemn hour, dear God, to celebrate the life of your son, Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson. Lord, we thank you for the great strides that he have made for so many. We thank you, dear God, as he stood in the gap for so many of us who daily face the trenches of trouble. Lord, Lord, he gave it to us. He gave us the ability to believe in ourselves when so many would not believe in us. Lord, he gave it to us. He gave us hope when it seemed like our back was against the wall. Lord, he gave it to us. Lord, he gave us peace in the midst of confusion in a troubled land. And now, Father, as we prepare to go on from here, we thank you for every moment. We thank you for every message. We thank you for his life, oh God. And father, we shall never forget that we are called to keep hope alive. Father, we are praying for his family. We’re praying for this nation and this country. Father, we are praying now that you would give us the strength and the hope. Uh, God, to keep hope alive in these times. Uh, and Father, he has fought a good fight. And we thank you, dear God, that he stayed in the race. Lord, you allowed him to keep the faith. And now, Father, we thank you, God, that there’s laid up for him a crown of righteousness, not only for him, but for those who call on your holy name. Uh, and so, Father, as we go through this season of mourning and grief, we want to thank you for our friend and our brother. We want to thank you for a freedom fighter. We want to thank you, dear God. for the honorable Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson in Jesus’s glorious name. Amen. Oh. Holy Spirit fall fresh on me. Anointed We th for we know that yours are broken and the captives set free. So let it fall down. Fall down. Fall down. Yes, we do. >> Of the Holy Spirit. >> of the Holy Spirit. >> Lord, let some drops now fall down the latter rain. Let it fall down >> on this old soul of mine. >> Lord, let it fall down. >> We need you. We need you. Yes, we do. of the Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> And on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit >> send your anointing. Let it fall down >> in my heart. in my soul. >> Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit. >> Holy Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> We need you. Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit >> create in me a clean heart >> and renew within me right >> Lord let your mercy fall on me Yes. >> Lord, >> power >> in the midst of tribulation. Lord, >> in the midst of persecution, >> we need a touch from you right now. >> Send it. Send it. Send it. Send it. We can’t do nothing until you come >> down on me right now. >> Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> Send it. >> Holy Spirit. >> Let it fall down on me. Holy Spirit, >> we need your direction. >> Holy Spirit, >> come right now. Heavenly >> love. >> Oh Lord, let it fall down on me. Yes, sir. >> Spirit of love, >> spirit of joy, spirit of peace, spirit of understanding, let it fall. Lord Prair. Every breath. >> Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Lord, >> Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Julia Porter Manox. Shall we pray? Father God, we love you so much and we thank you and we lift this day up unto you, oh God. Oh Lord, we’re so honored to be in this space to share this space with so many people who are likened unto you. We give your name praise. We find no fault in who you are, Father. And we thank you for this beautiful day. This life, oh God, who didn’t just talk, but walked and lived and was the example of how we ought to be. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. God, we’re here visiting what physically remains of our leader, our hero. God, what’s next? Well, Lord, you put it in our hands and we were taught how to move and how to live and how to be and how to stand up for ourselves and to stand up for others, oh God. And for this, we give you praise. Now, we know that death can be an inconvenience. Huh? It can be an inconvenience. I know it’s a hard truth, but death is an inconvenience. But we who remain, we have to do what you’ve called us to do. And Lord, I pray for the family, the Jackson family, for truly they know what sacrifice is. They’ve sacrificed their lives as their father sacrificed his and they sacrificed their father. God, hold them up. Be the strength that they need, not just today, but in the coming days. draw them closer together than ever before in the name of Jesus. Now God, today we thank you because the other side of this is the fact that there are no more doctors, huh? No more assistance, huh? No more pain and no more sickness. And for this we give you praise, God. His legacy was hope. When he walked in the room, we felt hope. Lord, for those who were downtrodden and those who had nowhere to go, he loved us all. And teach us, God, to have a remnant of that love for each other. We know that he’s in a place where the weary shall cease from troubling. And the weary are at rest. And all of the angels and the saints, they’re sitting at his feet, and they’re blessed. And some of those angels and some of those saints Houston, Reverend Reic, my parents, Reverend Dr.Wami, John R. Porter, and June C. Porter. Oh God, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you cuz you know what’s next. This whole world is in the palm of your hand. You lead us, teach us, help us, comfort us, keep us, Father, and we know we can make it. And we bless your name, God, because earth has no sorrow. None. I don’t care how dark it gets and how heavy it is. Earth has no sorrow. Hallelujah. That heaven cannot heal. And we’ll see them again. If you live right, we’ll see them again. Those who remain, it’s time to do the work. Do the work. Don’t talk about it. Do the work. And we thank you for such a grand example and bless all those who kept them. All of those all of those near and far. It is in the matchless, majestic, miraculous name of Jesus Christ we pray. Thank God and amen. I I greet you of the Lord. I want you today and just sit and praise. Those of us need to we need every now and then. And so I could have could have spoken about Lord, praise. for me. Every breath. >> Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. >> Oh Lord, my >> praise waiting >> wait >> for thee my king. every Lord. Thank you, Jesus. >> My favorite thing. Oh yeah. When I think of your goodness, this is all I can say. Lord, I can say you >> you are my light >> that shine >> in midst of darkness. Hallelujah. >> Nobody but you. >> You are my help. >> You are my help. >> You’re there. >> You’re there. Where would I be? >> I had a lot before your mercy. >> Hallelujah. Praise waits for you. >> My everything. >> You’re worthy of glory. >> You’re worthy of honor. >> My everything. >> Hallelujah. You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the praises. >> You’re my everything. >> I am. >> I don’t deserve all your goodness. >> But because of grace and mercy, >> I am not consumed. >> And I owe you all the praise. Praise >> Jehovah Gyra. >> Jehovah Roa. >> My everything. >> Hallelujah. My everything. >> Come on. Sing. >> It waits for thee. my everything. >> You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the honor. >> I praise you. I thank you. I love you. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. My everything. Hallelujah. You’re mighty fortress, >> a very present heaven, the time of God. You’re my strong tower. You’re everything. A mighty walk. Adoration is yours. >> Honor is yours. >> Great way. He waits for thee. >> My everlasting >> my hallelujah. Oh yeah. Come on. I need some folk who know that God is worthy in the building to give him some worthy praise. Angels sing glorers as they hear the stars shining wise menus. night was the night that I was born as she rocked her newborn. not come to save. He will lead us out of darkness. Glory, glor. What a night. I was born. that I was Good tidings. Glory, glory, glory, glory to God to you. Christ Rightous Jesus. This president can demand 30 sessions of prime time television 18 months and brainwash a whole nation. The largest business in America is the American government. And the president and chairman of the board of that business is the president. And even though those 300 corporations have 75% of the American wealth, the largest feeder to those businesses of contracts is the American government of which the president is chairman of the board and president. This president appoints generals and declares war or peace and affects attitudes and even ultimately behavior. Don’t play it cheap. I would challenge those of you here in the state of California. get involved in this primary election based upon what black folk need and who can deliver, who’s viable, and who has a measure of integrity. Make your choice. Don’t get trapped trying to assume that your uninvolvement is a decision to not vote for somebody. The decision to vote for somebody else, to not vote for one is to vote for the other. So, in some sense, you have an obligation to make a choice between relative goods or between two evils, however you want to put it. But you got to get involved. For the right to participate, for the power of the vote, you have an obligation to work and to keep it. As bad as things are, things could get worse. For Martin and others who died that this may become a reality, to not vote, to not get involved. It should throw dirt in their and to tell them that dying in Sam was ruthless and did not make any sense. We have an obligation not to escape into other countries or to escape through cynicism or romanticism. We got to make decisions and we can make them now. We are going to be the new generation, not just the now generation. We’ve even got to move on beyond the political order into a new value system. I’m concerned about our having doctors But I’m concerned about doctors being more concerned about public health and personal wealth. I want new doctors. I’m concerned about lawyers, but I want new lawyers. Lawyers who are more concerned about justice than a judgeship. Preachers, yes, but new preachers who express and teach the gospel, but who are more concerned about prophesying, even if it’s painful than prophetering, even if it’s comfortable. We got to have new teachers. Teachers who teach for life, not for a living. Teachers who teach because they can’t help it. And students who have a will to learn that is so great until they will steal away by the branch, read by the moonlight, study, use whatever chance they have just to develop their minds. For if our bodies are paralyzed and our minds are developed, we can play FD Roosevelt and lead a nation rolling on wheels. But if our minds are paralyzed and our bodies are strong, we will tackle men Sunday after sun and rip and run and slide in the bases and rip and run and throw basketball through courts. And as Giants walk back and ask midgets, “What is the next play?” If our minds are undeveloped, there’s so much to say, but there’s much more to do. Africa, Europe, Asia, a lot of people want to do a lot of help. Ain’t no hiding place for work. Africa would help us. If Africa could, America could if America would. Africa can’t and America ain’t. So we got to stand up. have to go to class. >> Yeah. About five minutes worth the question. You guys go to class and I got to go to the airport. Greg, I didn’t hear you. Me, but I’m too young. Uh, no. Seriously, my choices run something like this. For symbolic and emotional and ethnic reasons, I would go for Shirley Chisum first, but I would then go for McGovern next. Of the so-called dominant candidates, he is more viable, more viable, more intelligent, more integrous, and more involved. Humphrey and Musky are working out a scheme. scheme is called two for the price of one. Anne the Musky and Humphrey running when they’re saying the same thing and talking to the same people. So Musky drops out and cut the cost and simply throws his support to Humphrey. Humphrey then has a chance to outdo McGovern and then pick up Musk as his vice president as a payoff for getting his throat his support thrown during the primary. So you end up with another 1968 situation which is really an extension of the philosophy that now exists. I would take McGovern at that level because 1967 when Dr. King with his Nobel Peace Prize took a position against the Vietnam War. Uh they tried to accuse him of treason all of the American newspapers and televisions and even some the black people got trapped into thinking Dr. King had overstepped his boundaries. And when McGovern took a position against the Vietnam War in 1967 and then Bobby Kinsey followed McGovern, it began to give Dr. King a kind of credibility that could very well have to do with saving his life for another year. Secondly, McGovern and his Senate Select Committee on Malnutrition and Human Need did more to make hunger visible in the country out of Washington than any other single person and our committee did since 1968. The third reason is while everybody was dugging and dodging behind Wallace in Florida, McGovern remained consistent. And to that extent, uh I would have reason to move for him way above and beyond uh Humphrey and u and uh and Musky. And yet I would, you know, accept Humphrey and Musky over Wallace and Nixon. So it’s a kind of relative situation. But I would challenge the students in this state to know full well that the establishment leaders of this state are going to endorse Humphrey and some of them are going to play games talking about Musky. But the whole thing is to derail the McGovern Kennedy King movement style of operating in America. That’s what it’s all about. That’s why Musker got out of the way so as to happening. And the assumption is that Humphrey is going to inherit the black community because they are such blind Democrats. He may inherit it, but it won’t be because I’m going to be quiet about it. I’m going to tell it everywhere I go. Yes, a direct form of genocide to to escalate the war. But it’s a genocide against all kind of people. Let me tell you what the what the great the dilemma in America is. You see, once the greed get a certain level of power, they will exploit the needy even if it’s their mama and cousins. At a certain point, greed forgets about imam. That’s why Nixon’s mas ain’t in them out here on welfare in California. Nick don’t give a damn about his cousins and them. He’s trapped up in his new friends. Now, I want you to understand this. Our dilemma as young people is this. This is the tough one. It’s so tough I’m almost afraid to tell you. It is that the man is trying to put genocide on whoever resists. So, we are cuz we colored and white folks who are young are cuz they are with us. So they get wiped out in Kent State just like we get wiped out at Jackson State. Understand that. But it goes a step beyond that. And that is that we cannot in our franticism over genocide run to suicide trying to escape genocide by taking on tanks with a bottle being mean when we should be meaningful. That’s built into it. It even goes a step further. If we analyze how we’re going to best break up this so-called genocide movement, it is going to be by realizing that we can only save ourselves by saving the rest of the nation. That’s tough. The rest of the nation is willing to kill itself and kill us because it is so arrogant with its power. Charlie Finley is a microcosm of Nixon in terms of being willing to kill his profits, his team’s chance at a championship, and even some of his dreams just to reach back and punish by the blue. Which means that his suicide complex is so great until they kill by the blue, he will kill himself just so there will be equality in the grave. Now that is the that is the same kind of death wish that can be projected a thousand times and it’s evidenced again when Nixon is willing to bomb Hanoi and Hong and pull China and Russia into a wall where we move toward a world war where everybody ends up being dead right. Thank Lord, praise God. Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise >> wait >> for thee my king >> every Lord, thank you Jesus. My goodness, this is all I can say this Lord. I can say you >> you are my light >> that shines >> in the midst of darkness. Hallelujah. >> You are my help. Uh that was really difficult because we had these amazing families that were all worried that something horrible had happened to one of their loved ones graves. And we were scrambling. We’re trying to figure out the extent of it. And Reverend Jackson shows up and says, “Tom, how can I help? How can I help?” and he immediately put people’s minds at ease where we could tell people, “No, no, no. You do not have to worry. It’s just this small group. We’ve got it figured out.” And we went from people who literally were didn’t know what to do. They were so so traumatized to where it was like this. And he just did that. That’s just what he did. And then the the other one too, the honest to God, you sit there and sometimes you’re sort of playing around numbers, whatever you want to do. Um, I can tell you when COVID hit, we obviously like every other facility in the country, no one knew what to do. The doctors didn’t know what to do. Use masks, don’t use masks, you know, what the whole nine yards. So, you’re scrambling. Okay, you start with that. Well, then when the vaccines came about, there was a degree of skepticism at the beginning. People didn’t know to do this, not do this. in the jail. We were having a the most difficult difficult time getting people incarcerated to agree to take a vaccine. And we knew that this would be the secret to turning this and all of a sudden who’s there again his own personal interest because no one knew the extent of it. And you know, much like myself, Reverend Jackson and I were getting a little bit older, you know, and so you know, people were supposed to be, you know, housed alone, you know, kept people separated, masks on. I said, “Uh-uh.” He’s like, “What can I do to help Tom?” And I will tell you, overnight, overnight, we went from people were like, “No, I’m I’m not going to vaccine. No, no, no. I want nothing to do with it.” Overnight we went where now we have lines of people. And that was all because of him. That wasn’t because of some brilliance that came out of my mouth. No, no, no, no, no. Um, that was all because of him. And once again, I guarantee you most people don’t realize that, but you think of the thousands of people that he saved by doing that. And that that’s just, you know, what he did. And so, honestly, I could go on for hours the stories. It was one after another where the common thread was though people are in crisis, they needed help. And there he is. >> His leadership really extended uh to so many facets as you kind of illustrated there. What are some lessons you took away um from the way he led and how you apply that uh to the work you do? >> I think so much of it I took away from it was you have to have built up this credibility with people. This credibility that people trust you and they trust you because they see you at the front line. They don’t see you sitting behind a desk somewhere issuing orders and you know going to all the big parties, all the rest of that. No, no, they see you on the front line. They see you with real people with real issues. And when you do that, you get credibility. Then people, you know, believe in you and they say, “Okay, I’ll I’ll take a risk. I will take like take this vaccine or I’ll take a risk and say, I’m not going to go and start demanding I got to get into the cemetery. No, no, no. We’re we’re okay. I I I trust this person.” So, it’s that credibility that you build up. And you you can’t do that overnight, but when you have the sustained practice of helping people and being at the front line, you get credibility. >> Absolutely. We we’ll wrap with this one. Uh how do we keep hope alive? You know, imparting those lessons that Jesse Jackson thought for and really idealized uh in 2026 with so much division out here. >> Oh my god, this is, you know, this is incredibly unique, difficult times for people who sit there and think, well, this is similar to this. This is this is not similar to anything. This is not normal. This is not something people can write off. This is just a little blip. No, these are very difficult times. And it requires people of faith and it requires people of substance to stand up and be engaged involved. Yes. Can we get things back to a certain level of decency where humans are looking at each other as a fellow man that I want to help as opposed to run away from? We can get there. It’s not going to be easy. But it’s really a lot of the different things Reverend Jackson did over his life. That constant drum beat of caring for real people and the mutual humanity that we all have and looking at people that way. That’s what’s going to get us there. Some this other stuff, you know, people can try whatever, but it’s that ability to look at each other and look at each other’s humanity and say, “No, no, no. You’re a fellow man and we we all love each other and we’re going to help each other in this thing.” That’s how we’re going to get there. But boy, you nailed it. These are really difficult times now. >> Absolutely. We’re keeping hope alive. We appreciate you for helping celebrate that legacy, Tom Dart. Thank you for having me back. >> Absolutely. All right. We’re gonna have lots more reflections, conversations, and stories about the life and legacy of Reverend Jackson throughout the morning. ungettable messages of hope and justice. Please enjoy this special presentation. >> I’m Reverend Jessa Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina in the throws of legal segregation or part time. But against those odds, with the help of God and loving parents and inspiring teachers, I was able to break that cycle and make a contribution. I was born in the throws of segregation where we had limited options of access to education, health care and jobs. And so I knew the struggle in the sense I was in the midst of it. But I was not struggling. I was surviving. I was adjusting. But July uh 1960, seven classmates and I went to jail fighting to use a public library that we were jailed. I never left the battlefield after that point 50 years ago fighting the right to use public facilities. The the day Dr. King gave the speech in Washington, you know it as the I have a dream speech. On that day from Texas across Florida up to Maryland, we couldn’t use a single public toilet. Uh our money was counterfeited. We could not buy a room or rent a room in Holiday Inn. We could not uh get ice cream at Howard Johnson’s. our money had been counterfeited. Black soldiers had to sit behind lots of PS the day he gave that speech. That was before the public accommodation bill was before two years before they the the right to vote. And yet we did not give up. 23,000 of us were arrested between February 1st, 1960 and August 28th, 1963. 15,000 were arrested in 1963 alone. We fill up jail cells. And then the traditional polling silence we sang until the jail cells came open. Uh we disinfected the jails brought dignity there and we were there for the reason the right reasons willing to sacrifice for change. The change we sacrifice came our way. And so from those citins came the right to vote. The right for women to serve on juries. Right for 18 years to vote. Uh the right to vote on the college campus where you attend school. multi-ingual voting and the continuation of that battle the logical conclusion of it was after 54 years of struggle a 54 year race in the Kathlon race and marathon race President Barack Obama ran the last lap of that race and he’s now a president because the struggle never stopped and even today it continues I came home from college in 1959 I’ve been away for six months a very long time for the first time anxious to get back home going into school. I had to do a speech at 25 annotated bibiographies. I rushed to the colored library and M. Smith said, “I don’t have this number of books.” But my friend at the central library does so you take the note to her and I will give her a call. By the time I got to the library, two police were standing with her. It didn’t occur to me why they were there. Uh I know police don’t all hang around libraries. So I gave her the note. She said, “I’ll give you the books in six days.” I said, “But six days is too long. Uh, I I need to do my work now. I have to write the speech and memorize it, prepare to present it. I need your help. Can I go and get the books downstairs?” No one was in the library but two of us. The police said, “You heard what she said.” I then got the message that I was faced with arrest imminently if I did not leave the library. I went out sad, went out back to the library, and I I cried. I felt so humiliated and so brokenhearted that I’d been denied access to those books on a timely basis. Well, I came home that summer from school and several of my classmates had the same experience. We met at Springfield Baptist Church from leadership of Reverend James Hall. We determined to go downtown to use that library and commit going to jail to dramatize our displeasure. And I never forget we we forgot the preparation. If they curse you, don’t say anything back. If they they taunt you, don’t respond. They put a cigarette on your neck, be prepared to take the hit with sacrifice for this higher cause. So we went to all the preparation and then you probably arrested. But take the arrest and stride. It’s a it’s a it’s a fight for dignity. So after all the work had been done, we rushed down to the library, walk down there together, and the police were there. They knew we were coming. if you don’t leave, we’re going to arrest you. We’ll give you three warnings. And so when they said, “You have to go.” We left. Went back to church. Hall said, “Why are you back so quickly?” We said, “Because they said if we didn’t leave, they were going to arrest us.” It’s not essential to get arrested. Go back and go to jail. We went back with the jail. Of course, that became a defining moment in my life. The final moment in our struggle in South Carolina and the South F to end those legal barriers. Now I look upon the scars is where you get your stars. Every time I’ve gone to jail, it’s always been a matter of honor. Whether it’s going to jail for a library or going to jail to free South Africa, going to jail to end war, fighting for righteous causes, takes out of jail and death, which is sustained by your faith. I said to you, whoever you are today through it all, keep up alive. You fall down sometimes, you get back up again. But always know that nothing goes too hard for God and the ground is no place for a champion. So rise up and keep fighting. Immediately close down seven stores and stop the $35 million operation in one side of this picket. So there is a kind of instant power. However, the economic power is not the only leverage. And I think that the black community is driving for economic independence, for political independence, for military independence, for social, for religious and psychological independence, which mean that we will control our community as do other ethnic groups. I think it might need to be brought out that independence precedes interdependence. The white community is separate, but is separate and independent. The black community is separate, but it’s separate and dependent. Therefore, we can only have an I relationship or a manboy relationship. And the chief problem in America is that blacks are under uh have been put under an inferior delusion because we’ve been locked out of the sunshine of opportunity. But white folk been living in a superior illusion and they are have been overexposed to the sun. They think they’re more than what they actually are. And the fact is they cannot find out how tall they are until they stand on the ground and get off of our shoulders and off of our backs. And we’re going to give them the privilege to be men and not let them think that they’re super men. Let me express thanks to the ecumenical body of ministers led by Dr. Howard who took this risk admission of mercy on faith. I want to express thanks to the Goodman family, Mrs. Marilyn Goodman and Bob and Terry who prayed with us and gave us so much moral support and gave us the necessary inspiration. the people around this nation who wore their blue ribbons as a measure of solidarity as we prayed together and fasted together trying to rise above the everydayness of our lives that we might be able to secure the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman and to gain his freedom and have a breakthrough for peace. We want to thank Almighty God who heard our sincere and earnest prayers during this hour of crisis and this hour of opportunity. It was especially meaningful to us that once we got our telegram back from President Assad, we then called Senator Charles Per, chairman of our foreign relations committee, which we thought was the appropriate thing to do. Then got us in contact with the State Department. uh Ambassador Murphy and Mr. Lawrence Eagleberger. It was the support of our State Department within the law that gave us the latitude that we needed to feel that we were doing the right thing within the law. The fact that we left this country and the uh ambassador from Syria, Rafi Jujanti, escorted us to the airport and when we arrived in Damascus, Syria, Ambassador Paganelli met us there. meant that we were without the portfolio of either government but with the uh respect of both of them. President Reagan had the option to to stop our mission. He had the option to interfere or to intervene or he did neither. And we felt that the fact that he made the choice to not intervene or interfere was significant to us. The fact that Ambassador Paganelli met us in in Syria was a signal that our government had reasonable doubt because missions like this are not that uh successful often. But that was all that we needed was the reason assurance and the support. I would hope that the cycle of pain is now broken and that this mission of peace will take us to an everlasting peace. Lastly, it is significant that we were in Damascus. For one reason, many of us identify with Damascus is that a man traveling along that road many years ago fell off of a horse and was knocked unconscious. When he awakened, he saw a new light. It was the Apostle Paul. And because he saw that new light, the world has never been the same since. As it were, December of this past year, Lieutenant Robert Goodton was knocked from a plane and knocked unconscious. The Syrians had the right to kill him. They did not. They nourished him back to good health. And in due time, they released him. And thus, we see another light on this day. President Assad used this opportunity to seize an initiative, and we want to express our thanks to him. The fact that President Reagan has already sent him a letter is a sign that when the minds of leaders come together and their hearts agree that we do have the capacity to save this generation from disaster. Thank you very much. When Dr. King was assassinated. What do you remember seeing and what do you remember happening? >> I remember the day before how excited we were about the prospects of leaving that going on to Washington. We came with the quick about 6:00. Hit him at 7 this time. They knocked him against this door. What you see is him lying here, his foot in this banister happened so bad. So I saw blood just everywhere you knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knocked them against the back of the hotel door I remember someone somebody said get low get low cuz whoever it was if they had sprayed the bullet spray bullets they could hit three or four of us in the courtyard we got there’s a picture of Andy Young and somebody we that picture is saying the police come to draw guns the guns the shot come came that way go over the way that the shot came from. That’s what that picture was all about. I hate to replay that moment. He died so young, so innocent, such moral authority. It hurts to think about it, talk about it. >> What do you remember thinking at the time as all of this is going on? I remember we were just saying that we cannot let one bullet kill a movement. We’re going on to Washington and we did. Most of us are not spending time in Memphis at the trial. We spend time in Washington fighting in the war and fight for poverty to be ended. >> What did you say on the phone to Mrs. King? >> It was hard to get out. Dr. King had been shot I think I think in the shoulder. I couldn’t see in the neck. I’m sure within eight or 10 minutes she got a call from one of the wire service. He had been killed and that that drama took us in many ways to where we are today. >> Why was it important to you in the days that followed that or the next day to wear the blood stained sweater? >> My anger. >> Anger. >> Anger. I was upset. I was not blood not going to stop us. We will fight back. It was it was a a badge of honor. What’s the emotion when you come back? >> The light pulling scamp wound. It’s just raw. It’s not healed. It hurts. So wrong. So young and so strong. It had so much meaning, so much life left to live, so much more to give. And yet it just killed him. And our government did not protect him. I think the government sought to disgrace and discredit him. Our government have set the climate for his being killed. >> James Earl Ray who was convicted of killing Dr. King. Why have you said before you believe he did an act alone? >> He he didn’t have the money. The more organization skills to do it. Uh a lone killer getting out of town at 6:00. getting into Mississippi and all that end up in London. Couldn’t have done that by himself. >> What do you think happened? >> Gun was very involved. >> Do you think so? >> To what extent do you think Jay Edgar Hoover played a role in >> I have no idea that gets into too much detail except I know this guy could have done it by himself. There was very public hatred for Dr. being expressed by FBI and the government. >> Today, 40 years later, when you hear those words and when you say I am somebody, who is Jesse Jackson? >> Well, you know, it’s been a a long journey and and I thank God for allowing me to be a longdistance runner. I am a servant uh whose work is not complete and it unfolds every day in every situation I’m in gives me the mission of life the day I I did not see yesterday and so what I do is I I preach and as one writer said I preach every day and I use words when I have to because visiting a jail is a sermon visiting And the person who is making a death wish with cancer is a sermon or going into the Congo or going into South Africa or going into Native American reservation. And so I guess I am I can’t separate myself from what I do. I am what I what I act out. I I find in my work a sense of joy. So it’s not a job of submission. When I was running for the president, it was very difficult for me. Most difficult thing for me was saying, “Vote for me. Give me your vote.” Cuz I was programmed into doing the other that you know, you love yourself adequately and you love others properly. But the focus is never on me because it was not about me. I’m I’m always a bit disarmed by the me part of the question. It’s I’m so caught up in the Wii and I guess I find my me in the Wii. I basically live in the Wii. Jim Crow will not give him information. Jim Crow will not have him represented when the real decisions of this nation are made. There is experience not in America. What some historians may call a civilizational crisis. On the surface it is black. some trying to move it to make it black ground, but it’s deeper than that. There’s a gap growing between the have and the have not. That’s one evidence of that crisis. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That’s a split in this society. Look at the gaps between labor and business. There’s another split in this society. The gap between white and black is growing, not diminishing. There’s another split in this society. The rebellion and the conflict now between the sexes. There’s another split in this society. The gap between the hawks and the dove. There’s another split in this society. What am I saying? When you add up all of these splits together, you’re not just talking about a black white crisis or black brown crisis. You’re talking about the gamut of American life that constitutes a civilizational crisis. The only reason I would agree to come to a conviction such as this with a predominantly white audience. One is that you purport to be educated in as much as you’re an educator. And it assumes that the process of rational thought will prevail. The basic assumption in it assumes that you are students of history at a level where in a nation that is dominated by ignorance, poverty and disease. And in as much as education is supposed to be the antidote to ignorance is that those of you who are here in the midst of this crisis would constitute the vanguard or would represent the microcosm of what America ought to be like. that ignorant people must look to educated people for direction that a lost nation must look to its philosophers for wisdom. And it is with in the context of that presupposition that I come challenging you to be consistent with your credentials on your wall. Seems to me that an uneducated white person should be able to get away with racism because he sees a lot of evidence of it. But essentially means that once he takes one course in biology, if he passes that course, he should be in conflict with making decisions on race. If he passes one course in biology, not basketball, just one course, if he’s educated, some people in my class cuz we didn’t have no no laugh. They settled for being negro and caucus mongol. I decided I want to be a homo sapiian just be a part of the whole human race. I went on then I I began to study my theology and I found out that uh at the level of being born level of motherhood they call it mother nature that there’s democracy in birth all of us come to the same process and and and no matter what you acquire or what you don’t acquire then we die. There’s democracy in death and call that father time call that fatherhood. So in motherhood and fatherhood, there’s democracy. Cuz ain’t no white folk making no decisions on birth and death. But at the level where we do make some decisions in the gap of motherhood and fatherhood is brotherhood. And it’s all in conflict cuz the bigger won’t eat up the rivers. And why you want to destroy the black ones and want to force to fight the brown ones? We don’t know. We’re going to work out them kink at brotherhood. For the time would have taught all of us in much earlier because we would have abused the prison to live together as civilized homopholate on what’s happening in Florida. Its sh is a bus. It’s us. We got to decide we are in we are in a civilization of crisis. I will have to be honest and admit if there were a way to save black people without being involved in those of you who created this problem. I would suggest that we leave. But my better judgment and my study of geography and history will not allow me to be that irrational and narrow. There ain’t no hiding place. And that’s why we ain’t going nowhere. Evidence of Mr. Mix having been to China will not be the buffalo. It would be the ping hill Coca-Cola laid in King Road by Caterpillar services by four. This is a new world and I would hate for us see problem with brother Booker T Washington was brother Booker was on the case for a while you see because he was saying that what we need to do is develop our hands and do the skills. So what he stopped at was the father the man wasn’t being dishonest. He said we need to learn to be traders but he didn’t take into account the industrial revolution. In other words, he was making demands out of historical context. So we end up and they give us a school where we allowed to speak Spanish and English and then they give us free speech which means we cover Spanish. come to the schools and wear our own hats in the building and have our own self special colors and just be walking around the school just full of color and broke. Taken from the black experience, we can go to any school in America. We can’t pay the tuition. We can move in any neighborhood in America. We can’t pay the note. We can buy in a car in America. We’ll get it repossessed because we do not have money. Now in 1972, the issue is economic. Uh I too know suffering. My greatgrandfather was the sheriff of Greenberg County who raped my great-grandmother. And of that relationship, my grandmother uh who was stolen from the plantation by my grandfather and then my father came out of that relationship. Uh I’m no suffering. I was going to teenage mother was born to a teenage mother. July 17, 1960, I went to jail in Greenville, South Carolina trying to use a library. July 17, 1984, I was speaking for the Democratic convention in San Francisco without the aid of of government sponsorship. >> Is it enough to have have paved the way for another black person to be president someday? Who who won’t be you? Would you would you be satisfied with that? >> Oh, I would be uh at 50. I need not be because I’m young enough to do it myself. But whenever I see these barriers knocked down in part because of our work, it’s always gratifying. Last summer at the height of the Persian Gulf War and Colon Powell had immense visibility in the country and some say we want Colon Powell, we want Bill Gray who chair the budget committ that time, number three from speaker of the house in the Congress or we want Doug Wilder. Well, I knew 8 years ago before I ran, even dropping names of blacks as a frame of reference would not have been done. So, there is a renewed consciousness. >> You just turned 50 about a week ago. You’ve talked about living every day a day at a time because of threats of violence and whatever, but I just want I wonder if 50 means anything to you. >> Well, that part is not done up on me yet. I I am >> you’re denying it >> and oh my god I’m affirming it. I never thought I would make 50. So many people with whom I worked uh frontline people I have u preached their funerals attended them and what it was Dr. King and Malcolm who only made it to 38 uh meds who didn’t make it that far. uh a generation of fighters of Fred Hampton and others of them. Uh I feel blessed to have had the longevity and struggle. Something within me tells me that the change we seek uh needs to take place. Something without tells me that that that it can take place. And it I’m inspired not only by my background of suffering and struggle but by but by hope. Thank you for watching this word networks. just for me. Jesus came and did it just for me. Just for me. Just for me, Jesus came and did just for me. Just for me. Just for me. Jesus came and did it just for me. What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and grief to bear. Oh, what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. Oh, what peace we often for. And oh what needless pains that we often bear. And it’s all because we do not care to God and prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness will to take it to the Lord in prayer. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Take it to the Lord cry. Oh Lord, I’m amazed of the way you care for me. It’s just higher than the highest I can be. And Lord, I’m amazed of the way you love me. It’s like a father with a son. You teach me how to see. Lord, I know that there have been times when I didn’t know what to do. And the road ahead seemed hard for me to see. But Lord, I know you’re always there cuz I can feel your hand. Brush away my tears. Then you take me in your arms and father me. You father me. You father me. My Lord, you follow me. Lord, I know that there have been times when I didn’t know what to do. And the world ahead seemed hard for me to see. But Lord, I know you’re always there cuz I can feel your hand brush away my tears. Then you take me in your arms. Then you take me in your arms. Then you take me in your arms. Oh, and you father me. You follow me, Lord, real good. You follow me. You father. Oh, Lord, you’re my praise. thou every breath of >> Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. for thee might >> everyord thank you Jesus my oh yeah when I think of your goodness this is all I can say this Lord I can say you >> you are my light >> that shines >> in the midst of darkness. Hallelujah. >> Nobody. >> You are my help. >> You are my >> You’re there. >> You’re there. of trouble. >> Will I be >> for your mercy? >> Hallelujah. Praise waits for you. >> My everything. >> You’re worthy of glory. >> You’re worthy of honor. >> My everything. >> Hallelujah. >> You deserve the glory. You deserve the praises. >> You’re my everything. >> I am. >> I don’t deserve all your goodness, >> but because of grace and mercy. >> I am not consumed. >> And I owe you all the praise. >> Jehovah Gyra. Jehovah, >> my everything. >> Hallelujah. My everything. >> Come on, sing. >> It waits for me. >> My everything. You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the honor. >> I praise you. I thank you. I love you. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. My everything. Hallelujah. >> You’re a mighty fortress. A very present heaven. >> You’re my strong tower. >> You’re everything. A mighty full. >> Adoration is yours. >> Honor is yours. >> Praise. >> It waits for thee. my everything. >> My hallelujah. Oh yeah. >> Come on. I need some folk who know that God is worthy in the building to give him some worthy praise. Angels Sing glory to the newborn kingdise men. Jesus is born. What a time. Oh, what a night. It’s a beautiful night. The night was born. smiling as she rocks her newborn baby at this child who’s come to save. He will lead us out of darkness to the light. Glory, glorif. Night was the night that our was born. Lord again you something of you. Oh, I bring you tidings. >> Glory, glory, glory, glory. Glorious Christ rightous. Christ was born. >> Angels sing. You already know. >> Absolutely. Listen, I’m not always Wait, now Worthy Born adorning. Holy, holy thy are you, oh Lord. My strength and my song, blessings and honor, wisdom and power is yours alone worthy. Worthy thou art God. Angels are holy and give you praise. Worshiping you for your majesty. Going over and over again. Blessed Lord God Almighty. Angels holy, holy, holy, holy, worshiping you Lord for your majesty is unto our God. This king of glory. Holy God, holy >> myu deliver your Glory. >> And the holy holy God. to receive Christ and blessing the holy shall ride with Forever Lord >> and your holy holy name. We sing glory, holy, holy God. God, wonderful God. Lord. Hallelujah. Jesus, you’re the center of my joy. All that’s good and perfect. You’re the heart of my contentment. Hope for all I do. Jesus, you’re the center of my joy. When I’ve lost my direction, you’re the compass for my way. You’re the fire when nights are long and cold in sadness. You are the laughter that shatters all my fears. When I’m all alone, your hand is there to hold. You’re the center of my joy. All that’s good and perfect. You’re the heart of my contentment. You’re the center of my joy. You are why I find pleasure in the simple things in life. The music in the meadow and the voices of the children, my family and my home. You’re the source and finish of my highest dreams. You’re the center of my good. >> You’re the heart of my country. for all I do. >> Jesus. >> You are >> You are >> the center of my job. Jesus, >> you are >> you are >> the center >> of my job. >> Jesus, >> you are >> the center >> of my joy. >> You are everything. >> Everything. >> You are >> everything. Everything >> you’re my joy >> in my sorrow. >> You’re my hope tomorrow. >> When I’m lonely, >> feel it. >> You are the lifter >> of my hand. >> You’re my music. >> You’re my song. You’re my all and >> you’re the center of my joy. Joy comes in the morning. Know that God is now. >> Know that God is. >> Don’t try to fight the battle yourself, but stand still >> and look up. >> God is going to show up. >> God is going to show up. >> He’s standing right by. We want to say that one more time for somebody who may be discouraged. Don’t be discoura. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Felicia Jackson I’ve had my share of life ups and downs. But God’s been good. The DS have been few. Oh, I guess you could say that I am blessed. I know you can say that it’s all because of God. If anyone should ever write his life story for whatever reason there might be. Oh, God is there between each line of pain and glory. Cuz God’s the best thing ever happened to me. Yeah. God’s the best thing. Yeah. that ever happens to me. Oh, there maybe times, you know, times were hard, but always somehow he made it. He made it through. Every moment that he spent hurting, there was a moment that he spent home just praising you. Yeah. If anyone should ever write his life story for whatever reason there might be. Oh, God is there between each line of pain and glory. Cuz God’s the best thing ever happened to him. Oh yeah. God’s the best thing that ever happened to him. I know God’s the best thing that ever happened to him. Joy comes in the morning. >> Know that God is now. >> Know that God Don’t try to fight the battle yourself, but stand still >> and look up. >> God is going to show up. >> God is going to show up. >> He’s standing right by. >> He’s standing by. >> We want to say that one more time for somebody who may be discouraged. Don’t be discouraged >> cuz joy is on the way. Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning. Know that God is not. >> Stand still. >> Stand still. >> Knowing that God is going to show up. >> God is going to show up. >> He is standing right by. >> He is standing by. For those of you who may not know it, there’s healing. >> Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Marshall Hatch. God bless you. Let us pray. God of our silent tears, God of our weary years, thou who has brought us thus far along the way, thou who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever on the path. We pray on this day. We thank you for the gift of the life of Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, one of your bright lights who beginning in Greenville, South Carolina, shine forth to touch the entire world. Today we thank you for the ways you revealed yourself through his life, through his global ministry, through his six decades of prophetic witness. Lord, we say thank you for the gift of his life. What a wonderful life. Lord, we thank you first for revealing yourself in the connectivity of his life. for his connection to social justice giants in the African-American faith tradition, his connectivity to Denmark VC and David Walker and Sojourer Truth and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas, America’s prophet of a new birth of freedom, the champion of woman suffrage, expanding the vision of America for the global huted mouses, yearning to be free. Thank you for Reverend Jackson’s connectivity to Rosa Parks and Fanny Liu Hamer and his direct connection to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thank you for his revealing yourself through his connectivity. And then secondly, thank you for revealing yourself in Reverend Jackson’s longevity. Certainly longevity has its place. Thank you for his 60 years of faithfulness 1966 to 2026. His faithfulness to his assignment given to him by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King for 60 years of preaching good news to the poor, supporting workers, freeing hostages, feeding the hungry, keeping hope alive all over the world. 60 years, one and one half generation of Chicagoans and Americans and global citizens, one and a half generations who do not know what it is to live in a world without the ministry of Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson. Thank you for the gift of connectivity and longevity and faithfulness of keeping hope alive. And then finally, thirdly, we thank you for the gift of continuity for a race that is a relay race from his generation to a new generation of freedom fighters for such a time as this. Thank you for his intentionality. While he lived, he mentored. While he lived, he discipled. While he lived, he trained. While he lived, he charged and challenged. While he lived, he inspired. While he lived, he poured himself into a new and next generation of freedom fighters to take the baton of prophetic witness for such a time as this. To keep hope alive for such a time as this. And now our longd distanceance champion runner joins the ancestors. His work is done. And for today we do sorrow, but as 1 Thessalonians 4:13 and 13 and 14 says, we do not sorrow as those that have no hope. For we believe, we believe in Jesus, the one who is the living hope of our ancestors. Even Jesus, the one who is born outside the inn, and rid in Nazareth, baptized in muddy Jordan, giving good news to the poor, setting the captives free, meeting, feeding the multitudes, healing the sick. And for all that Jesus did, he was rejected by his compatriots, arrested by the Roman soldiers, crucified by the empire, but raised by the power of God. We pray this prayer in the name and in the spirit of the one who says as you’ve done unto the least of these so you’ve done it unto me in Jesus name. Amen. >> Thank you Reverend Hatch. I want to thank everybody for joining us in this celebration of life for Reverend Jesse Jackson senior the visitation. I ask that we please keep the line moving. It’s important that we want to try to accommodate as many people as possible to celebrate the life of Refuge Jesse L. Jackson, Senior. I want to thank in a special way Reverend Marshall Hatch for his prayer they just offered to us. And a special thank you to Father Flagger who’s come to join us. And he’s also brought with him a good friend from the Catholic tradition, our Cardinal Bla1 Supic, who will lead us in prayer. Lord, we use your words. You will lift us up on eagle’s wings. And so we commend our brother Jesse Jackson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, one that you know because he in his life has lifted up so many on eagle’s wings. He has carried people forward, pushing for justice, equality, and love, nonviolence in our world. And so as we commend him to you this day, let each one of us be comforted in the faith that he passed on to us, a faith that reminded us that your mercies are tender and never exhausted. And let us be true to the legacy he left behind. Especially we pray for his children and grandchildren. Let them know that they follow in the footsteps of a man who is a giant for justice. And in that way, his work will continue to live on well beyond his years, affect the lives of so many. Yes, Lord. lift him up on eagle’s wings because he has done that for so many in our world today. We give you thanks. We praise you for his life. Comfort those who mourn his loss with assurance that now he rests with you. Amen. Thank you for Feeling for your spirit. Your spit >> there shelter from the rain. >> Shel from the rain. >> Lord send the healing. >> Lord send the >> Lord. Send it for this one thing we love. >> There’s a bomb in G. Hallelujah. >> To heal to heal the sickle. >> Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus to make the world. Hallelujah. We want to tell you one more time that there’s healing for your sorrow. >> Healing for your pain. >> Healing for your pain. >> Healing for Your spirit >> shelter from shel. from the >> Lord. >> For this one, >> listen. He was wounded for our transgressions. The word of God said, >> hallelujah. >> And it also shows that he was br iniquity. >> Reach out. It’s here. It’s here. It’s here right now. >> Don’t worry about what friends might say. God’s got a healing for you. If you believe >> I tried him and I know him. He’s a healer. He’s a doctor. He’s a deliverer. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Sing it one more time. If you believe that God is a healer, sing it from your belly. There’s heal. >> Yes, it is. There’s >> somebody tonight. Somebody’s >> Yes. Yes. In the corners of your mind, traces of discouragement. and peace you cannot find. Reflections on your past seem to face you every day. But there’s one thing I do know that Jesus is the way. All of those questions in the corners of your mind and traces of discouragement and peace you can not find and the reflections of your past seem to face you every day. But there’s one thing I do know. That Jesus is the way. Help me sing it, y’all. Jesus is the answer for the world today. But there’s no other. Jesus is the way. Oh Jesus is the answer for the world today and above and there’s no other. Jesus is the way. Jesus is the answer for everybody in this world today. And above him there’s no other. Jesus is the way. Jesus is the answer for the world today. And I’m so glad there’s no other above. There’s no other above him. There is no other. Jesus is the way. Calary. Calary. Calary. Can you Can you hear? Can you hear them? Surely I know he’s not Can you hear him calling his father? You hear >> Can you Father, father. in his hand. He didn’t have Surely. Holy name of this song is total praise. I My toes in my hand Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Anita Wilson. Many blessings to the Jackson family. God bless you. God bless y’all. Rest in peace, Reverend Jackson. We going to keep hope alive, y’all. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, thank you, Lord. who uh opens doors that I cannot see. Jesus will. Jesus will. Come on and say, “Who will make all my decisions?” Sing it if you know it. will make all >> my decisions >> for me. >> Jesus will >> Yeah. Yeah. Jesus will >> Oh, say when I’m in trouble, >> when I’m in trouble, >> he gives me a song. Oh, and in the night season. Yeah. >> In the night season. >> And the heart. >> Oh, then who makes me do right when I would do wrong? Yeah. Hey, I know. I know he will. >> Yeah. Yeah. Say, “Oh yeah.” >> Glory to God Jesus. >> I know he will because he said he will. Yeah. >> Thank you for your joy, Lord. >> Jesus. >> I say I know he will. >> I know he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> If I keep still. >> If I keep still, >> I know. Yeah. >> Yeah. I know. I know he will. Oh. Come on, everybody say, “Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus Christ, >> I know he will because he said he will. >> Yes, he will. >> Yes, he will. >> Jesus, I say I know he will. >> I know he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> If I keep still, >> if I keep my still Say Jesus will. >> Oh, come on everybody. Say, >> Jesus will. >> I know he will because he said he will. Yeah. Yeah. >> I say I know he will. >> I know he will. I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battles. >> He’ll fight my battles. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> Yes, he will. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> I know he will. If I come back, >> if I keep Yeah. Yeah. I keep >> Come on, say it if you really believe. >> Just one more y’all. Everybody say, “Hey, yeah, Jesus.” >> I know he will because he’s doing it right now. >> Jesus, I say, I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. >> I know he will. How you know? Because he said he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He said he will. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. >> He’ll fight my battle. Darius, I ain’t got to say a monthly word. >> You ain’t got to say a monthly word. >> Won’t he will >> fight my battle? >> Won’t he will fight. Everybody say >> he’ll fight. >> Everybody say >> Everybody say my battle. >> He’ll fight my battles. Hey, >> he’ll fight my battle. >> If I keep still. Yeah. Yeah. I keep still. >> Oh, I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. because he came through for me before. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Everybody say Jesus. Well, yeah. Hallelujah. God bless you. Thank you. >> There he is. I love you, Jesus. I worship and adore you. Just want to tell you, Lord, I love you more than I love you, Jesus. I worship and adore you. Just want to tell you, Lord, I love you more than I. I lift my hands in total adoration unto you. You reign on the throne. For you are God and God alone. Because of you, my cloudy days, they’re all gone. I can sing to you this song. I just want to say that I love you more than anything. You wrapped me in your arms. You were my shelter from all those storms. When all my friends were gone, you were right there all along. You were right there all along. Hallelujah. You were right there all along. I never known a love like this before. Oh, I just want to say that I love you more. Oh, I love you, Jesus. Yes, I do. I worship and adore you. Just want to tell you, keep it sweet. Lord, I love you more than Yeah. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. Oh my heart. I need you, Jesus. Can’t do nothing without. I need you, Jesus. Yeah. Can’t make it without you. Can’t make it without you. I love you, Jesus. I worship and adore you. I just wanted to tell you, Lord, I love you more than anything. So, I just want to say that I love you more than anything. God bless y’all. I will love I to the is coming from me. Your peace you give me in time of the stor. You are the source of my strength. Hallelujah. And you are the strength of my life. Yes. I lift my hands in your praise to you. Ladies and gentlemen, Maurice Mahan. Correction, Pastor Roosevelt Watkins. Brothers and sisters, as we prepare our hearts and mind for prayer, never before the family needs your prayers. They need your prayers on today. In times like these, we need an anchor. Times like these, we need a savior. Times like these. We had paused our program and our prayer from the great pastor because we were just informed that at the front of the line now are a group of people who drove in from Greenville, South Carolina. So I was wrong. Louisville, Kentucky. Give them round of applause. As we prepare our hearts and mind for prayer. Eternal God and God of justice, >> God of revolution. >> The God who stands with the least, the lost, and the locked out. We’re standing in this moment that history will underline in this sacred space of the Rainbow Push Coalition. >> Yes. >> Where hope was organized and justice was strategized. We feel the weight and we feel the glory. So God, we pause to say thank you. Thank you for allowing us to witness the life of the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior. You took a son from Greenville and you made him a global voice. You took a preacher and you made him a policy shifter. >> You took a man with a microphone and turned him into a movement. And when America tried to close the door, he pushed. When the system tried to shrink dreams, he stretched them. When despair tried to settle in our communities, he declared, “Keep hope alive.” And Lord, today we say hope is not buried. Hope is breathing. Now, Father, we pray that you’ll wrap your arms around the family, Miss Jackson and the children. Hold them tighter than public applause. Strengthen them beyond political praise. Let them grieve as a family, not as a headline. And when the crowd dispersed, be their comfort. when the noise quiet be their peace. Let them know that their father didn’t just leave a name, he left the nation changed. And God, we pray for every young person watching. Every activist feeling tired. Every preacher wondering if their voice matters. Remind them that giants don’t pass away, they pass assignments. So if there’s a fire in our bones, fan it. If there’s courage in our spirit, ignite it. Brothers, as we prepare, sound like these. We need an anchor. For in times like these, we need a savior. >> And because justice is not seasonal, equality is not optional. And hope is not a hashtag, it’s a responsibility. So let justice roll like a mighty stream. Let justice roll through Chicago. Let justice roll through America. Let justice roll through the system that forgot the poor. Let justice roll through the boardroom, classroom, and courtroom. And as your servant rests, don’t let us relax. As he transitioned, don’t let us retreat. And we remember, don’t let us remain the same. Receive your servant, God. Let heaven welcome a freedom fighter. Let eternity embrace a justice drum major. And as we leave this room, let history say that this was not the end of a movement. This was a transformation. It’s in Christ Jesus name we pray. Thank God and amen. Your peace me You are my life. Sing to the Lord. Sing to the Lord. Sing to the Lord. Lord Jesus praise. To the glory of God, the glory of God. will be with you. I will be with you. I will be with you. will trust me. Trust me, trust me. I’ll never leave you. I’ll never leave you. I’ll never leave you. You will trust me. Trust me, childhood. You will trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Am I am I have all power. I will trust me. Trust me. says I have deliver Trust me, >> trust me. Ladies and gentlemen, Maurice Mahan. Oh, some say my future not that bright. Some say I’m useless, unholy, and not living right. But beginning of the day, I look in the mirror and say, “I am somebody.” I believe the future’s in my hands. And tell every boy, girl, woman, or man, if I could think it, I can’t believe it. Created and achieved it. So I am somebody. Oh, I am somebody. Oh, I am somebody. Maybe down and push away the beginning of the day. I am somebody. Oh, so take away the hate and give me love. Take away the hate and show me love. Give me peace instead of pain. Joy inside this rain and I will remain. Somebody. Oh, take away the hate and show me love. Take away the hat and show me love. Maybe down but not found. Guilty but not for cuz I am somebody. Oh I am >> somebody. I am >> somebody. May be down but not destroy. If I’m not what I am somebody who I am. >> Oh, I am somebody. You can turn and walk away, but at the end of this day, I am I am somebody. Oh, I am somebody. >> Oh, I am somebody time to walk away at the end of this day. I am >> I am somebody. Oh yeah. At the end of this day, they can turn and walk away, but still still you are somebody. Oh, I am somebody. >> I am safe. They can turn and walk away. But this day you still say I am somebody. >> So hold on. >> Be strong. >> Hold on. >> Stay there. >> You have the words to say. I Somebody bless you. The Lord gave me this song in a dream. And when I woke up, I knew that was a healing song. >> And I knew that God had ordained that because I was going through some spiritual pain of my of my own. And it was speaking to my soul. I just wanted to encourage other people who might be going through pain that God is a healer. Earth has no sorrow. that heaven cannot heal. There’s no situation that you’re going through that’s so difficult that God cannot fix it. I don’t care what your friends say. I don’t care what your family says. I don’t care what whoever’s around you says. There’s healing for your soul and for your spirit. So, we want you to be encouraged tonight and not be discouraged. >> Joy comes in the morning. Know that God is >> know. >> Don’t try to fight the battle yourself, but stand still >> and look up. >> God is going to show up. >> God is going to show up. He’s standing right by. >> He is standing by. >> We want to say that one more time for somebody who may be discouraged. Don’t be discouraged. >> Cuz joy is on the way. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. >> Know that God is not. Stand still. >> Stand still and look up. >> Knowing that God is going to show up. >> God is going to show up. >> He is standing right by. >> He is standing by. >> For those of you who may not know it, there’s healing. There’s healing for your sorrow. >> There’s healing for your pain. >> Healing for your pain. >> Healing for your spirit. >> Healing for your >> shelter from the rain. >> Shel from the rain. Lord send the healing. >> Lord send That makes sense. Thank you. Jason. Reverend Jesse Jackson, I definitely appreciate it. >> I’m happy to have been able to do that. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you for having me. >> Of course. Of course. And as we continue to celebrate the uh life and legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson, uh we want to say to everyone out there around the world, thanks for coming in. Thanks for watching. Continue watching. Keep it locked here. There’s going to be lots more conversations about the love of this man, about the justice of this man, about everything that this man did for not just what do you do when you’ve done all you can? It seems like it’s never enough. Tell me, what do you say when your friends turn away and you’re all alone? Tell me, what do you give when you giving your all? seem like you can’t make it through. Well, you just stand when there’s nothing left to do. You just stand and watch the Lord see you through. After you’ve done all you can, you just stand. Tell me, how do you handle the guilt of your past? Tell me, how do you deal with the shame? Tell me, how can you smile when your heart has been broken and filled with pain? Tell me, what do you give when you’ve gi your all and it seem like you can’t make it through? Well, you just stand. You stand. You stand. Don’t you dare give up. You go through the storm and you go through the rain and you go through the heartache. Yes. And through the pain. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hold on. and you be strong. Say you hold on. Don’t you dare give up. Hey, don’t you bend and don’t you bow. The Lord will make a way some way somehow. Oh yes, he will. Oh yes, he will. Oh yes yes yes yes yes he will stand stand said to you just stand after you’ve done all you can After you done all you can, you prayed and cried. You cry and prayed. You prayed and cried. You cried and prayed. After you’ve done all you can, >> you You you just stand. God bless you. As a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior, faced the harsh realities of segregation and the sting of social stigma. Born out of wedlock, he was often taunted by other children. Experiences he later said fueled his determination to succeed. Under the Jim Crow laws of the South, Jackson was taught to sit in the back of the bus and drink from colored water fountains, practices he accepted until the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 opened his eyes to the power of protest and possibility of change. Jackson attended the racially segregated Sterling High School, where he was elected student body president, ranked 10th in his graduating class, and earned varsity letters in baseball, football, and basketball. After graduating in 1959, Jackson turned down a contract from a minor league baseball team to attend the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. But after two semesters at the predominantly white university, he transferred to North Carolina ENT State University in Greensboro, a historically black college. At ENT, Jackson not only played quarterback, but also won election as student body president and became deeply involved in local civil rights protests against segregation at libraries, theaters, and restaurants. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1964 before heading to Chicago Theological Seminary on scholarship to prepare for the ministry. Jackson left the seminary in 1966, three courses short of a master’s degree, to devote himself fully to the civil rights movement. He was ordained in 1968, and decades later in 2000, Chicago Theological Seminary awarded him a master of divinity degree, recognizing both his academic work and his lifetime of leadership and service. in Chicago. Jackson quickly became a prominent figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He worked with King in 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery Marches and later led the SCC’s economic arm, Operation Bread Basket, which pushed for fair employment and business opportunities for African-Ameans. Jackson was in Memphis with King on April 4th, 1968 when King was assassinated. >> Gentlemen, if we could have a little bit more volume on the video, please. >> Cementing his commitment to continue King’s mission of racial and economic justice. I am somebody, Jackson would later proclaim, a phrase that became one of his enduring calls for dignity and empowerment. >> I am. >> I am somebody. >> Somebody. >> I am. somebody. >> I may be poor. I may be poor, >> but I am somebody. >> I may be on welfare, >> but I am somebody. I may be unskilled. >> I may be unkill, >> but I am somebody. >> I am I am beautiful. >> Proud. I must be respected. >> I must be respected. >> I must be protected. >> I must be protected. >> What time is it >> when we stand together? What time is it? >> When we say no more yes about what time is it? >> In 1971, he founded Operation Push, People United to save humanity in Chicago, an organization aimed at expanding economic and educational opportunities in black communities. A decade later, he launched the Rainbow Coalition. Later merged into the Rainbow Push Coalition to unite diverse groups, black, white, Latino, labor, and progressive around issues of social justice and political reform. And >> I think that the black community is driving for economic independence, for political independence, for military independence, for social, for religious and psychological independence, which mean that we will control our community as do other ethnic groups. I think it might need to be brought out that independence precedes interdependence. The white community is separate but is separate and independent. The black community is separate but is separate and dependent. >> Jackson’s national profile soared in the 1980s as he took his message of empowerment from the pulpit to the political stage. In 1984, he entered the Democratic presidential race, becoming the first major African-Amean candidate to mount a serious campaign for the White House. Running on a platform he called the Rainbow Coalition, Jackson sought to unite a broad base of Americans, the poor, the workingclass, farmers, laborers, students, and minorities under a message of economic justice and inclusion. If in my high moments I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope, or stirred some run of apathy and indifference, or in any way along the way helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain. Though he finished behind former Vice President Walter Montdale and Senator Gary Hart, Jackson’s campaign made history. He won more than 3 million votes, carried several primaries and caucuses, and forced the Democratic Party to confront issues of racial and economic inequality more directly than ever before. His candidacy also helped expand black voter registration and participation nationwide. Undeterred, Jackson launched a second bid for the Democratic nomination in 1988. This time, his campaign was more organized, his message more refined, and his appeal broader. He won 11 contests, including Michigan, Virginia, and Georgia, and captured nearly 7 million votes, finishing second to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakus. Jackson’s 1988 campaign broke new ground in American politics. His speeches, often delivered with the cadence of a preacher and the conviction of an activist, drew crowds across racial and regional lines. >> It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don’t you surrender. Suffering breathes. Character. Character breeds. Faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint. You must not surrender. You may or may not get there, but just know that you are qualified and you hold on. >> Our time has come. he declared, urging voters to build a rainbow America that reflected the nation’s diversity and shared aspirations. Though he did not win the nomination, Jackson’s back-to-back campaigns helped to reshape the Democratic party, opening doors for future generations of candidates of color. Many political observers have credited his runs with paving the way for leaders such as Barack Obama two decades later. >> America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Oh, the love of the night and beyond. Keep hope alive. I love you very much. >> After his landmark presidential picks, Jackson remained a commanding presence in American politics and civil rights. While his name no longer appeared on the ballot, his influence stretched from city hall to Capitol Hill and far beyond the nation’s borders. In the years that followed, he returned his focus to the Rainbow Push Coalition. Continuing to fight for economic equality, voting rights, and social justice. In the decades following his presidential campaigns, Jackson remained a tireless advocate for justice both at home and abroad. Through the Rainbow Push Coalition, he promoted economic empowerment in African-American communities, champion voting rights, and pushed for corporate accountability. His efforts helped expand opportunities for minority owned businesses and secure jobs in historically underserved neighborhoods. Red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight. Every >> Jesse Jackson’s Saturday morning forum is a long-running weekly gathering held at the Rainbow Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago. Part town hall, part civic classroom, and part community worship service, it has become a Chicago institution. Established during Reverend Jackson’s early years in the city, the forum evolved into a must-visit stop for national political figures, clergy, activists, and cultural leaders passing through Chicago. Each week, the forum tackles pressing issues of the day. Social justice, civil rights, community empowerment, and political participation, offering a space where information is shared, strategies are shaped, and voices from the grassroots are heard. >> They need federal intervention. They don’t have the budget for drug rehab. They need federal intervention. The imbalance in funding of public education must be rectified by the federal government. We need federal intervention. We need the Voting Rights Act enforce. We need federal intervention. Talk to me, somebody. We need the money directed from Iraq to Gary and to Milwaukee and Chicago. We need federal intervention. Jesse Jackson also became a prominent figure on the world stage. Often called upon to mediate in crisis where governments found no way forward. Over the decades, he helped secure the release of hostages and prisoners in Syria, Kuwait, Iraq, Cuba, Kosovo, Gambia, and beyond. In 1984, he negotiated the freedom of a US Navy pilot held in Syria. A daring act of private diplomacy that drew international praise. Reverend Jackson’s mission was a personal mission of mercy and he has earned our gratitude and our admiration to the people around this nation who wore their blue ribbons as a measure of solidarity as we prayed together and fasted together trying to rise above the everydayness of our lives that we might be able to secure the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman and to gain his freedom and have a breakthrough for peace. That same year, he traveled to Havana to meet personally with Fidel Castro, winning the release of 48 Cuban prisoners. Years later, in 2000, Jackson once again stepped into the global spotlight, helping free four journalists held in war torn Liberia. Whether advocating for political prisoners in South Africa and Haiti or speaking with adversaries few others would engage, Jackson’s moral authority and belief and dialogue earned him recognition from world leaders and at times sharp debate at home. A civil rights icon and a global peacemaker, Jesse Jackson’s reach extended far beyond America’s borders. Throughout his life, Jackson’s voice remained a fixture in American public life. He frequently spoke on issues of racial equality, education and economic fairness, and he continued to mobilize communities around voter registration drives, grassroots organizing, and social activism. Even as he faced personal health challenges, including the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Jackson remained active in public affairs well into his 80s, stepping down as president of Rainbow Push in 2023, but leaving the organization in strong hands. Jackson is survived by his wife Jacqueline, his six children, multiple grandchildren, and a wide circle of family, friends, and colleagues who carried forward his mission of justice and equality. Throughout his life, he balanced his public activism with a deep commitment to his faith, serving as a minister, mentor, and moral voice for countless Americans. Reflecting on his decades of work, Jackson often emphasized the power of hope, unity, and persistence. From the segregated streets of Greenville to the national political stage, his life was a testament to the belief that ordinary citizens can drive extraordinary change. Civil rights leaders, politicians, and admirers across the country hailed him as a bridge builder, a tireless advocate, and a trailblazer whose influence reshaped American society. The nation recalls not only the historic campaigns, speeches, and negotiations that marked his public career, but also the personal courage and unwavering commitment that defined a lifetime dedicated to the cause of justice. The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said that freedom is not just a right, it’s a responsibility. He lived that truth. May his work continue through us and may his voice always remind us that every person is somebody. I may be poor. >> I may be poor. >> But I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I may be on welfare. >> I may be on welfare. >> But I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I may be in jail. >> I may be in jail. >> But I am >> But I am >> somebody. >> I am. >> I may be uneducated. >> I may be an educator. >> But I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I am. >> I am >> I am >> black. >> Beautiful. crown. >> I must be respected. >> I must be respected. >> I must be protected. >> I must be >> I am >> I am >> somebody. And now, please enjoy this special encore presentation brought to you by the Word Network in its entirety without commercial interruption. As a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior, faced the harsh realities of segregation and the sting of social stigma. Born out of wedlock, he was often taunted by other children. Experiences he later said fueled his determination to succeed. Under the Jim Crow laws of the South, Jackson was taught to sit in the back of the bus and drink from colored water fountains, practices he accepted until the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 opened his eyes to the power of protest and possibility of change. Jackson attended the racially segregated Sterling High School, where he was elected student body president, ranked 10th in his graduating class, and earned varsity letters in baseball, football, and basketball. After graduating in 1959, Jackson turned down a contract from a minor league baseball team to attend the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. But after two semesters at the predominantly white university, he transferred to North Carolina ENT State University in Greensboro, a historically black college. At ENT, Jackson not only played quarterback, but also won election as student body president and became deeply involved in local civil rights protests against segregation at libraries, theaters, and restaurants. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1964 before heading to Chicago Theological Seminary on scholarship to prepare for the ministry. Jackson left the seminary in 1966, three courses short of a master’s degree, to devote himself fully to the civil rights movement. He was ordained in 1968, and decades later in 2000, Chicago Theological Seminary awarded him a master of divinity degree, recognizing both his academic work and his lifetime of leadership and service. In Chicago, Jackson quickly became a prominent figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. the organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He first worked with King in 1965 during the Selma to Montgomery marches and later led the SCC’s economic arm, Operation Bread Basket, which pushed for fair employment and business opportunities for African-Ameans. Jackson was in Memphis with King on April 4th, 1968 when King was assassinated. The killing marked a turning point in Jackson’s life, cementing his commitment to continue King’s mission of racial and economic justice. I am somebody, Jackson would later proclaim, a phrase that became one of his enduring calls for dignity and empowerment. I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I may be poor. I am >> But I am >> I am >> somebody. >> somebody. >> I may be a welfare. >> I may be a welfare. >> But I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I am. >> I may be a skilled >> I may be a skill >> but I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I am >> I am >> beautiful. >> Beautiful. >> Proud >> proud. >> I must be respected. >> I must be respected. >> I must be protected. What time is it? >> When we stand together, what time is it? >> When we say no more, yes. What time is it? >> In 1971, he founded Operation Push, People United to save humanity in Chicago, an organization aimed at expanding economic and educational opportunities in black communities. A decade later, he launched the Rainbow Coalition, later merged into the Rainbow Push Coalition to unite diverse groups, black, white, Latino, labor, and progressive around issues of social justice and political reform. >> I think that the black community is driving for economic independence, for political independence, for military independence, for social, for religious and psychological independence, which mean that we will control our community as do other ethnic groups. I think it might need to be brought out that independence precedes interdependence. The white community is separate but is separate and independent. The black community is separate but is separate and dependent. >> Jackson’s national profile soared in the 1980s as he took his message of empowerment from the pulpit to the political stage. In 1984, he entered the Democratic presidential race, becoming the first major African-Amean candidate to mount a serious campaign for the White House. Running on a platform he called the Rainbow Coalition, Jackson sought to unite a broad base of Americans, the poor, the workingclass, farmers, laborers, students, and minorities under a message of economic justice and inclusion. If in my high moments I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope, or stirred some run of apathy and indifference, or in any way along the way helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain. Though he finished behind former Vice President Walter Montdale and Senator Gary Hart, Jackson’s campaign made history. He won more than 3 million votes, carried several primaries and caucuses, and forced the Democratic party to confront issues of racial and economic inequality more directly than ever before. His candidacy also helped expand black voter registration and participation nationwide. Undeterred, Jackson launched a second bid for the Democratic nomination in 1988. This time, his campaign was more organized, his message more refined, and his appeal broader. He won 11 contests, including Michigan, Virginia, and Georgia, and captured nearly 7 million votes, finishing second to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakus. Jackson’s 1988 campaign broke new ground in American politics. His speeches, often delivered with the cadence of a preacher and the conviction of an activist, drew crowds across racial and regional lines. >> It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don’t you surrender. Suffering breathes. Character. Character breeds. Faith in the end. Faith will not the support. You must not surrender. You may or may not get there. But just know that you are qualified and you hold on. Our time has come, he declared, urging voters to build a rainbow America that reflected the nation’s diversity and shared aspirations. Though he did not win the nomination, Jackson’s back-to-back campaigns helped to reshape the Democratic Party, opening doors for future generations of candidates of color. Many political observers have credited his runs with paving the way for leaders such as Barack Obama two decades later. >> America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive on the love of a night and beyond. Keep hope alive. I love you very much. >> After his landmark presidential, Jackson remained a commanding presence in American politics and civil rights. While his name no longer appeared on the ballot, his influence stretched from city hall to Capitol Hill and far beyond the nation’s borders. In the years that followed, he returned his focus to the Rainbow Push Coalition, continuing to fight for economic equality, voting rights, and social justice. In the decades following his presidential campaigns, Jackson remained a tireless advocate for justice both at home and abroad. Through the Rainbow Push Coalition, he promoted economic empowerment in African-American communities, champion voting rights, and pushed for corporate accountability. His efforts helped expand opportunities for minority owned businesses and secure jobs in historically underserved neighborhoods. >> Red and yellow, brown, black, and white, we’re all precious in God’s sight. Every >> Jesse Jackson’s Saturday morning forum is a long-running weekly gathering held at the Rainbow Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago. Part town hall, part civic classroom, and part community worship service, it has become a Chicago institution. Established during Reverend Jackson’s early years in the city, the forum evolved into a must- vvisit stop for national political figures, clergy, activists, and cultural leaders passing through Chicago. Each week, the forum tackles pressing issues of the day. Social justice, civil rights, community empowerment, and political participation, offering a space where information is shared, strategies are shaped, and voices from the grassroots are heard. >> They need federal intervention. and they don’t have the budget for drug rehab. They need federal intervention. The imbalance in funding of public education must be rectified by the federal government. We need federal intervention. We need the Voting Rights Act in force. We need federal intervention. Talk to me, somebody. We need the money directed from Iraq to Gary and to Milwaukee and Chicago. We need federal intervention. Jesse Jackson also became a prominent figure on the world stage, often called upon to mediate in crisis where governments found no way forward. Over the decades, he helped secure the release of hostages and prisoners in Syria, Kuwait, Iraq, Cuba, Kosovo, Gambia, and beyond. In 1984, he negotiated the freedom of a US Navy pilot held in Syria. A daring act of private diplomacy that drew international praise. Reverend Jackson’s mission was a personal mission of mercy and he has earned our gratitude and our admiration for the people around this nation who wore their blue ribbons as a measure of solidarity as we prayed together and fasted together trying to rise above the everydayness of our lives that we might be able to secure the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman and to gain his freedom and have a breakthrough for peace. That same year, he traveled to Havana to meet personally with Fidel Castro, winning the release of 48 Cuban prisoners. Years later, in 2000, Jackson once again stepped into the global spotlight, helping free four journalists held in war torn Liberia. Whether advocating for political prisoners in South Africa and Haiti or speaking with adversaries few others would engage, Jackson’s moral authority and belief and dialogue earned him recognition from world leaders and at times sharp debate at home. A civil rights icon and a global peacemaker, Jesse Jackson’s reach extended far beyond America’s borders. Throughout his life, Jackson’s voice remained a fixture in American public life. He frequently spoke on issues of racial equality, education, and economic fairness, and he continued to mobilize communities around voter registration drives, grassroots organizing, and social activism. Even as he faced personal health challenges, including the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Jackson remained active in public affairs well into his 80s, stepping down as president of Rainbow Push in 2023, but leaving the organization in strong hands. Jackson is survived by his wife Jacqueline, his six children, multiple grandchildren, and a wide circle of family, friends, and colleagues who carried forward his mission of justice and equality. Throughout his life, he balanced his public activism with a deep commitment to his faith, serving as a minister, mentor, and moral voice for countless Americans. Reflecting on his decades of work, Jackson often emphasized the power of hope, unity, and persistence. From the segregated streets of Greenville to the national political stage, his life was a testament to the belief that ordinary citizens can drive extraordinary change. Civil rights leaders, politicians, and admirers across the country hailed him as a bridgebuilder, a tireless advocate, and a trailblazer whose influence reshaped American society. The nation recalls not only the historic campaigns, speeches, and negotiations that marked his public career, but also the personal courage and unwavering commitment that defined a lifetime dedicated to the cause of justice. The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said that freedom is not just a right, it’s a responsibility. He lived that truth. May his work continue through us and may his voice always remind us that every person is somebody. >> I may be poor. >> I may be poor >> but I am >> I am >> somebody. >> I may be on welfare. >> I may be on welfare >> but I am >> but I am >> somebody. >> I may be in jail. >> I may be in jail >> but I am >> but I am >> somebody. >> I may be uneducated. But I am >> I am >> somebody >> I am >> I am >> black >> beautiful >> proud >> I must be respected. >> I must be respected. >> I must be protected. >> I must be respected. >> I am somebody at home. We are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus. Jesus Christ for it is God’s power of salvation to everyone that believes it. To everyone that receives it, we shall have everlasting life. Oh, we are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh, it is God’s power of salvation. It’s to everyone. Everyone that believes it. And thank God it’s to everyone. everyone who received and we shall have ever he is a light into our pathway. His word is a lamp unto our feet. God’s word will take us all the way to glory will set the captives free and we’ll live eternally. God’s word. He can heal a broken heart. His word, he can save all souls. God’s word can set the captives free. Set the captives free. And we’ll live eternally. Oh, we are not ashamed. We are not ashamed of the goel of Jesus Christ. Oh, we have ever. We’re going to have our last. We are not ashamed. We are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh last sing. We are not shamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. For we’ll have Ever land sing life we’ll be with him forever for we’ll have everlasting love Oh y we’re going to have so glad we’re going to have everlasting. Let the church say amen. Let the church say amen. God has spoken. Let the church say amen. Let the church say amen. Let the church say amen. God has spoken. Let the church say amen. Amen to the brokenhearted. Amen. To set the captives free. Amen. To do wonders. Amen. To have peace of mind. Amen. When we rest. Amen. When God is blessed. Amen. When God do his will. Amen. When we can be still. Let the church say, “Amen. Let the church say amen. God has spoken. Let the church say amen. God has spoken. Let the turn say, “Oh, God has spoken. Let the church save me. Here we go. Oh Lord, you’re my everything. Praise for hearing pray. Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building. that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Oh Lord, >> oh Lord for my >> praise wait >> for thee my king. Every prayer Lord, thank you Jesus. My favorite thank you. Oh yeah. When I think of your goodness, this is all I can say. This Lord I can say you >> you are my light >> that shines >> in midst of darkness. Hallelujah. >> Nobody but you. >> You are my help. >> You are my help. >> You’re there. Show my life for your mercy. Hallelujah. praise waits for you. >> My everything. >> You’re worthy of glory. >> You’re worthy of honor. >> My every Hallelujah. >> You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the praises. >> You’re my everything. >> I am. >> I don’t deserve all your goodness. >> But because of grace and mercy, >> I am not consumed. >> And I owe you all the praise. Jehovah >> Gyra >> Jehovah Roa >> my everything. >> Hallelujah. My everything. It waits for me. >> My everything. >> You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the honor. >> I praise you. I thank you. I love you. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. Hallelujah. >> Ladies and gentlemen, >> a very present help in the time of trouble. You’re my >> Reverend Greg Daniels. Through the years I keep on talling. Lord, I’m toing storm and the rain. Yes, Lord, I’m patiently waiting and watching for the Savior come again. I I’m coming, Lord. Woo! Every day I’ll be trusting in your holy word. Yeah. And church I say when the gates swing walk right on in. Yes. Lord teach me how to love my neighbor. Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, teach me, teach me, teach me how to love my friends. Yes. Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit. Yeah. Keep me humble till the end. I’m coming, Lord. Woo! Every day I’ll be trusting in your holy word. Yeah. And church, I say, “When the gates, I say win the gate.” Yeah. Win the gate, Jesse. Win the gates, Jackson. Win the gates. Swing a walk right in. Yes. I was night. I was born. I was Good tidings. Glor, glor, glor to you. Angels Christ rightous. Singus. Glory God. Worthy Morning. Holy holy thol. Holy, holy, holy, >> holy are you Lordrenless and power is yours worthy thou God angels are holy. I give you praise you for your majesty and over again. Angels are holy, holy, holy, holy, worshiping you for your majesty unto our God. Who is this king of glory? Holy >> holy holy word, >> my refuge and Creator and deliver redeemer and your holy power and praise the holy Christ the holy holy shall forever and ever and ever. We sing glory, holy, holy. Wonderful. The power of life and death lies within our worlds. I encourage you to be mindful of your words. Help me welcome the music and arts global mass party live in London featuring the power of our words. We can do medit. My heart becept. The words I speak. That’s my power. >> If only we would power. heart. Let the words of mine >> of my heart be acceptable in the father. >> May the words I speak. >> Let it touch somebody. God, that’s I won’t harm you with my words, but I enorourage you with my words. I won’t do you no harm with my words. >> I’ll use my words. I’ll encourage >> I won’t use my word to bring you. I want to use my words to encourage you with my words. >> I won’t >> I won’t damage you with the words I spourage. Ladies and gentlemen, Bishop James Stevenson. Let us pray. Our Father and our God, oh, how we love you and how we thank and praise you, Lord, for this privilege and this opportunity to come to you in prayer. Dear God, it was you that said in your word to cast all of our cares upon you. And that’s what we’re doing on today. Dear God, as we’re lifting up this Jackson family, we pray now, God, for their strength. We pray, God, that you would dispatch your angels to cover and to keep them in their hour of bereiement and help them to know and understand that you’re the same God today, yesterday, and forever more. You was with them way back then and you’re still with them on today. Dear God, we thank you for the life, the legacy, and the love of Reverend Jackson, Jesse Lewis Jackson. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, oh God, for the impact. We thank you for the imprint and the impression that he has left in the earth. Dear God, we thank you, Lord, for lending him to us. He’s been a drum major for justice, Lord. A trumpet sounding in the wilderness. Dear God, we thank you, Lord, for his voice. We thank you for his leadership. Thank you for his life and his legacy. Now, God, our nation needs your help. We have lost an icon. We have lost a giant, but God, we thank you. We thank you so much for what he has been and done for us. Now God, lift up this Jackson family, Lord, to get them through this part of their lives. Help them to know, God, that you’re walking beside them. And you made a promise in your word that you’ll never leave them. Neither will you forsake them. And God, those moments when the tears begin to fall down their face. You promised in your word, oh God, that you’d wipe all tears from their eyes. And so God, we thank you, Lord, for being a comforter and a keeper, Lord, and a sustainer. And we thank you, oh God, that even though they’re walking through the valleys of the shadows of death, that they don’t have to worry because you’re with them. Thank you for keeping and covering them in their hour of bereiement. God, we thank you that today is their turn, but later on today very well be ours. So God, we thank you. Thank you again for what you have done in the past. Thank you for what you’re doing in the present. And then prophetically, oh God, we thank you for the things that you’re about to do. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. You are the king. Eyes strife, we are healed. Eyes now, we’re free. Eyes is blood, we’re washed free. And now we have the victory. And the power of sin is broken. >> Yes, he did. He has won. >> Yes, he has. >> It all. >> So, every voice we singing won the victory. >> I won the victory. >> I’m so glad that he’s alive. Thanks. >> You have won it all. >> It all we say death could not hold. >> You’re alive and well. are the reason. >> Yes. >> See, you are the king of glory. >> Yeah. Say that could not hold you. >> Nothing could hold you down. God, >> you are the king >> and you’re seated. >> Oh, you are the >> Stretch out your hands. Stretch out your hands. Stretch them out. >> He’s alive. He’s alive. >> He’s alive. >> Say he’s alive. >> He’s not dead. >> So grateful that he lives. >> Come on. Just say, “Come on. Our God is now. >> He’s alive now. >> He’s alive now. I got everybody. >> Come on. >> Lift up your hands and your voice. Say hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> You were God. >> You have your vtory. We’re thankful for your life, oh God. >> Hallelujah. >> Now, you got to get all the way up there. Say, >> who is Jesse Jackson? Well, you know, it’s been a a long journey and and I thank God for allowing me to be a longd distance runner. I am a servant whose work is not complete. Have you ever witnessed the resolve of a real champion? >> I am. Have you ever walked with Reverend Jesse Jackson on the road to battle? >> Have you ever seen him persist when others resist? >> Pull your head high. Stick your chest out. You can make >> Have you ever seen him take the road less travel? >> We are humane people. We fight for justice and fairness. >> Always a helping hand on the road to freedom. Reverend Jesse Jackson Senior and the Rainbow Push Coalition. Still the long distance runner and still no more impossible dreams. >> No sir, you cannot be admitted. >> Why? >> I am not going to serve you because of my race. >> I’m not going to serve you. I didn’t decide to become wandered at the civil rights sit and earth but I couldn’t use the public library I sat in and it became I was arrested the sacrifice and the risk involved in that. >> Jesse Jackson >> has done that with me >> all his life. >> When I was tired he manned the barricades. He made sure that as best he could and that as best we could, our people would be all right. >> Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appoints Reverend Jackson in 1966 to head Chicago’s Operation Bread Basket, Southern Christian Leadership Council’s self-help economic uplift program. In August of 1967, Dr. King appoints Reverend Jackson, national director of Operation Bread Basket, which negotiates hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars for African-Amean neighborhoods across the country. >> I was a little boy who grew up in a community where black children could not go to the public schools and lawyers came into our community and made them up at the public schools. And I thought that was going to be the end of the struggle. And what I learned quickly is that it was just the beginning of the struggle. A few years later, Dr. King was assassinated. And it was challenging to navigate all the ways you could be made to feel not as good as other people, not as smart as other people. And it was in the middle of that struggle uh that I began listening to you. And you gave these speeches and you would ask people to repeat after you and then you would say, “I am somebody.” And I remember watching the TV and saying over and over again, “I am somebody.” >> Jesse Jackson all his life you hear him say, “I am somebody.” He’s saying that to himself as much as he’s saying it to anybody else. >> Beautiful. Wow. My father has learned to take the broken pieces of life, the shredded pieces, the discarded pieces and come up with something beautiful. He is a minister first. Uh many people see him as a politician first. Following in Jesus tradition, that’s what my father has done. Cast light into dark places to set the captive free. >> We need our God. We need our money. We need our protection under the law. Fuckism is racism. Wake up. blow your trumpet. Let the world know we are decreed. We do not like it. >> We talked about an organization that would involve people in a united struggle and so it was people united at first to save humanity and then at a later point it became people united to serve humanity. >> Just what is operation push? >> Well, operation push is a civil economics organization. It’s a religious organization with an economic mission. And we believe that the black church is the political and spiritual salvation of our people. And it is to that extent that we challenged churches and churchmen to get involved. >> I think when I went to jail the first time, like I was born again. Something happened within me. A fire was lit that never went out really. >> He formulated what he called rainbow coalition of the dispossessed. That was African-Americans, Latinos, poor people. What was surprising was a number of whites who really came up to him and saying you’re the only person out there who represent my point of view. >> I was an undergraduate student 19 84 you were running for president. I was a student government president in North Carolina Central. You came to campus and I can remember real well they had a major politician that was supposed to be introducing you and when you came in you said no I want a student. I want that student. and I want the student government president. That happened to be me and I had the privilege that day of introducing you to about a thousand students and more and be in Duke auditorium. And it was not only a tremendous experience for me, but a tremendous experience for the students. >> Change comes about when our young black boys and young black girls in this country could see that there are those of us who are willing to make the supreme sacrifice and take the consequences because we have to leave a legacy to them. Reverend Jackson and our judgment helped to enable a new generation of African-Americans to serve. This was the civil rights movement deciding that it was time to get involved in electoral politics and Reverend Jackson was that vehicle for many of us to get involved. >> America’s future, the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson. the manager of Walter Manddale’s campaign called him out and he said, “Uh, you know, tomorrow night’s speech is very important to the Democratic party. Can you kind of give me an idea of the direction that you’re going to go?” And he said, “Tomorrow night, you will either be a chimp, a chump, or a champ, but you won’t know until tomorrow night. But just because you’re born in the slum does not mean the slum is born in you >> and you can rise above it. We must leave racial battleground and come to economic common ground and moral higher ground. America our time has come and come November there will be a change because our time has come. >> I remember 1988. I just remember one sing. We were just cheering and chanting and the impact of him of seeing him at the DNC. >> He was telling people regardless of color if they’re really being poor, ignored by their government or have been marginalized by a political and economic system that really doesn’t care about him that you should be supporting him. >> We had what money could never buy in a campaign. with their passion. >> Jesse Jackson, you see me on TV, but you don’t know the meat that makes me me. >> He talked about not being able to be able to do the stuff folks take for granted. And the young guys who didn’t want to talk, didn’t want to hear, they started crying because they were able to convince them, I do really understand. You think you got a bad record who my what my name is, where it came from, what my background is. >> You see, I was born a teenage mother. who was born a teenage mother. I understand. I know abandonment and people being mean to you and saying you’re nothing and nobody and can never be anything. I understand. I understand when nobody knows your name. I understand when you have no name. I understand. >> And he’s talking about it to people who are sitting there thinking that’s me, that’s me, that’s me. And he’s running for president and he’s on the stage. And the message he sent that was more than just subliminal. There was this reality that said, you know what? I can do that cuz he understands what I’m saying. Around the clock medical has been ordered for Caesar Chavez, head of the United Farm Workers Union. He has been on a fast for testing the use of pesticides. >> Today is day 30 of Mr. Chavez’s water fast. Today he’s lost approximately 30 lbs. He’s about 15% of his body weight. We are getting to a critical point of his fast here. >> In 1988, Caesar Chavez launches a hunger strike known as the fast for life on behalf of organizing the United Farm Workers. After 36 days of fasting, when Chavez could no longer physically continue the toll of the fast, Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson senior answered the moral call of solidarity along with a host of committed like minds to support and provide buoyancy to a fatigued Chavez. Jesse Jackson touched on issues that were important to a lot of Americans of all races and all backgrounds who didn’t feel that they were represented. hands that pick cotton will pick the next president of the United States of America. Those kinds of sayings help people to believe and understand that we had a right uh to be a part of uh the real politics of this country. Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out, you can make it. I’m just trying to carve out a lane of healing or a lane of hope, a lane of reconstruction and revitalization. I wanted to try to uh pick up the broken pieces and connect them. I was thinking about how even then you were thinking about the next generation. After that, you invited all of us to go out with you to dinner. We went to this strange little place called Chicken Hut in Durham, North Carolina. I remember when we walked in, the lady was excited to see you, the owner, and she said, “Reverend Jackson, whatever you want, it’s on the house.” And I remember that day that you took your wallet out and said, “No, I can pay. If you want to give somebody something free, give it to one of the brothers on the street. Give it to somebody that can’t pay.” a whole lot of young people. We were watching that day and we watched and we learned from you that really when we serve and when we are gifted, we’re be really supposed to be more concerned about others than our own self. >> He proved a black man could go out there and stand on his own, master the issues, master foreign policy. Hi, I’m so happy to see you here. >> I got this call from a Tennessee office who was our friend and our attorney and woman said, “My friend’s daughter is in captivity.” Do you have a choice for her? I was made aware of the work she done by her mother and my parents. I’m sensitive to the during US relationship compounded by the Trump era. Frankly, >> the hardest thing was not knowing how long I would be there. So they were throwing around some pretty long sentence terms. >> We met Reverend Jackson Washington in the wee hours. We organized a meeting with the the ambassador and other political figures and Isabelle was free with I had no idea about Reverend Jackson’s involvement until after I got back and started to hear how things had developed on this side. I’m here thanks to you and and I’m really more grateful than than words. Thank you for allowing me to serve. >> The Reverend Jesse Jackson along with former PWs and US servicemen Andrew Ramirez and Christopher Stone were honored to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the civil rights leaders securing their release and that Steven Gonzalez from captivity in Yugoslavia two decades ago. >> They’ve been in isolation for 32 days. Here’s covered taken place to place to drive them crazy. We did not want to miss this chance to express our gratitude to those who placed themselves in harm’s way to advance the cause of community. >> The men and their families were celebrated at Rainbow Push as they shared the story of how they were captured on March 31st, 1999 while on a peacekeeping mission along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. >> We took direct fire on the vehicle. We truly did not u believe that once they captured us, you know, anything good was going to happen. But it did when Jackson put together a delegation to travel to Belgrade to ask Yugoslavian President Sloban Mallosvich to release the American soldiers. After 33 days, the soldiers were free. >> They are brave and I will always be eternally grateful for the efforts and and the the courage that it took. >> Once home, the men visited Rainbow Push and just like 20 years ago went to Wrigley Field for a Cubs game. Reverend Jackson, you told us in our first meeting in Bgrade, through our scars come our stars. Well, here with our families today, we see that you were right. >> Thank you. >> Those experiences just to see the incredible impact that he has internationally by picking up a phone by going and meeting with diplomats to free US citizens is unparalleled because what the US government couldn’t do Jackson did. I called Re. I said, “Rail, we need you over here at Pitman Park.” Rail came free machines all morning. The five machines they just brought here, five new machines. I already had machines held the back of the protest. >> Reverend Jackson called officials immediately and five additional machines were delivered. As the machines were installed, people began to chat. This is my birthday and I feel that that birth is a landmark. We should do something meaningful and sacred on a sacred day. Inmates, we want to register them to vote. 6,000 inmates here. So, we’re going to meet with uh the inmates. They judges, state attorney, those who can get out want to get them out of jail and been back on the streets with some commitment that makes society the better. >> It’s hard to imagine how we could have come as far as we have without the creative power, the keen intellect, the loving heart, and the relentless passion of Jesse Lewis Jackson. And God isn’t done with him yet. >> And was born in Greenville, South Carolina, October the 8th, 1941. There’s a hero. If you look into your heart, you don’t have to be afraid of what you are. There is an answer. If you look to yourself, all of the sun and your feet will melt away. And then a hero comes along with the strength to carry on and you cast your fear side cuz you know you can’t survive. And when you feel all hope is gone, look inside your hand and it’s strong. And you’ll finally know the truth that a roll lies in you. Oh yes. Then a hero comes along with a strength to carry on. And you cast your fears aside cuz you know you can’t survive. When you feel hope is gone and be strong and you’ll finally know the truth that a hero lies in you. Oh, there will be tomorrow. You’ll find a way. hero stand to carry on and you cast your fears aside cuz you know you can survive and when you is gone but inside you’ll just be strong and you I know truth that a hero lies in in you last in you. Hero. Hero. He is our as a husband. I saw that more than anything. I will lift up mine to the hills from I help the Lord. The Lord which made heaven and earth. He said he would not thy foot thy foot to be moved. The Lord which keepeth thee, he would not stumble nor sleep. Oh, the Lord is thy keeper. The Lord is thy shame upon thy right hand. Upon thy right hand shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. We shall preserve thy soul even forever more. My help. All of my help cometh from the I will lift up my eyes to the heels from my head. My help cometh from the Lord. The Lord which made heaven and his He said he would. >> The Lord will keep thee. No, he will not slumber nor sleep. Oh, the Lord is our keeper. The Lord is my shame. upon thy right hand. upon thy hand shall preserve my soul even forever more. My hand. All of my help. All of my help coming from the Lord. for the Lord is going to keep my shy. He shall preserve my soul shall preserve my soul forever more even forever. Oh yes, you when I need healing is all my All of my coming I won’t be the star of Jesus. All of my help, all of my help come up my life. unto the All of my coming from I saw You’re my all of my coming from where I need You’re my glory. Hallelujah. Jesus. In the secret place of the most high shall The shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord. He is my God. In him. He that dwelt that >> in the secret place >> of the most high shall abide >> under the shadow >> of the Almighty. I will say yes. >> He is my >> Oh yes, he is my God. >> My God in him. >> He shall >> and he’ll protect you >> from the hand of the enemy. He shall >> with his >> and your hide. >> You are. >> He will. >> He will. >> He’ll protect you. >> No matter what’s going on. He shall cover you. He’ll cover you all the way. He’ll hide you. But his truth shall be >> I shall Is it dwelling >> in the secret place >> in the secret? >> Oh yeah of the most high shall abide >> under the shadow >> of the Almighty. >> The Lord. Oh yes. >> In him will I trust? >> Oh yeah. Listen. The Bible says the name of the Lord is a strong child. So the righteous can run to him and be saved. We just come to encourage you tonight. No matter what you’re going through, no matter what you may be facing, no matter what you’re dealing with, God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all you can ask or think. anybody else tried the Lord and know he’ll come through just in the nick of time. You ought to lift your hands and tell God, “Yeah, yeah. >> I’ll trust you, Lord. >> I trust you.” >> Cuz he said, >> “He delivered me. >> Lord, I’m standing on your word. >> Oh, yes. In him will I trust through it all. I learned how to trust him. >> I had some ups and I had some downs. Got a little up on this journey. We never >> in him. >> Will I trust So put your trust in Jesus. He’s the only one that can work it out for you. He’s the only one that can fix it for you. >> Yeah. He said it. >> I know he will. >> Yeah. My refuge and my >> Yes, he is my >> God. >> In him. >> Oh, I never seen a righteous mistake. No pro. >> Whatever you need, you can have it. He got power. >> Yes. My God, >> my God. >> In him. Come on. If you believe it, why don’t you lift your hand and tell the Lord? >> I trust the Lord. >> I’m going to look to the hill from my >> But I have nobody else to lean on. I can run to Jesus >> when I have nobody else to turn to. >> Rock yeah. >> Nobody can do me like Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. I know for myself tonight in him will I trust He’s tell me what are you going to do? Your time has come for life. He is. He is. There’s a deep inside. Seems like after all, you’re never satisfied. You saw me heard you call that change. Even if you run away, you still can’teny. Something’s going on and it’s somehow deep inside the He’s calling you. He’s calling you. Yes, he is. Tell me, what are you going to do? For your God, >> your God has come >> for life. >> He is calling you. He is calling you. Remember when you said we needed something? Now it’s time to realize he’s knocking at your door. Things that you used to do somehow don’t appeal to you. Why would you want them anymore? Oh, listen to your heart and to your soul. Listen, church >> and don’t be afraid anymore. He’s calling. >> He’s calling you. >> Tell me, what are you going to do? Your time has come for life. >> He is calling you. >> Calling you. Oh, tell me what are you going to do? Bring your time has come >> for life. >> He is calling you. Calling you now. >> Say yes. Say yes. >> He say >> he’s going. Oh my brother sist. to him today. >> Oh, for a better life. bright. >> Oh, do you want your life to change? Do you want your life to change? >> Do you need your life to change? >> Say yes to Jesus. Yes to Jesus. Yes to life everlasting. Yes. Yes to Jesus. Yes, you say yes. She wants to give Unless you give me Lord, I come to you. I ask you to pray. The enmy is threatened by the gift you Jesus, a You know what I mean? Go before the Father. Say a prayer for me. for those that you fight the wind and the waves captain. So I don’t mind I’m willing to say that Jesus a prayer for me. You know what I need? Go before the father and intercede for me. to me as like say a prayer for me. Oh. Holy Spirit, pray for me. Holy Spirit for me. I need you to come on down. I need you. Come on. Come on. Holy Spirit. >> Holy Spirit. >> Pray on me. like >> I’m coming asking you to cover me >> like I Oh Lord, I need you to pray for me. When I read the Psalms, >> I discovered that if anybody knew how to praise the Lord, David How to praise the Lord. >> David said, “I will bless the Lord at all times, >> and his praises shall continually be in my mouth.” That means no matter what I’m going through, he’s still worthy of praise. >> Listen, I’ve been through the fire. And I’ve been through the >> broken in pieces >> and left all alone. >> But through it all, God blessed me. >> And through it all, God kept me. And I still have a praise inside of me. >> Yes, I still have a praise inside of me. >> Can I get a witness here? >> Come on, fire. Help me. Come on. >> Been through the >> broken and Jesus >> broken in peace >> and left all alone. >> and left all alone. >> But I got good news tonight. But through it all >> But through it all, >> God bless >> God bless me. >> And through it all >> through it all, >> God kept God. And I still >> And I still have a praise inside of me. >> Yes, I still >> Yes, I still have. >> Let me tell you what my praise is. >> There’s a praise in my spirit. >> There’s a praise in my soul. >> In my soul and the glory Hallelujah. >> That cannot be controlled. >> Do you still have a praise inside of you? I just want to see you lift your hands right there. >> I still have a >> I got one more thing I want to tell you. Listen to this. Although I’ve been wounded, >> Although I’ve been wounded >> and I’ve been >> I never gave up. >> I never gave up. >> I trusted in God. >> I trusted in God. >> But through it all, >> but through it all, >> God bless. >> God blessed me. And through it all, >> it all. >> Ladies and gentlemen, Amand Tariq. Let us please Focus our hearts on prayer with the name of God, the merciful benefactor, the merciful redeemer. Oh God of Abraham, oh God of justice, oh God who lifts the lowly and strengthens the weary. We stand in gratitude for the life of res Reverend Jesse Jackson. He taught a generation to declare, “I am somebody.” In a world that tried to reduce black life to statistics, to margins, to silence, he insisted on dignity. He insisted on worth. He insisted that every child of God, every creation of God has value. He told us to keep hope alive. Not as a slogan but as a discipline. Not as denial of struggle but as resistance to despair. Oh God, we thank you for a life that embodied both conviction and compassion. A life that stood in the public square and reminded America of its unfinished promises. My teacher, Imam Worthine Muhammad, once said, “Give me a good future.” And we recognize today that Reverend Jackson labored for that future. He believed that tomorrow could be better than today. He believed that justice was possible. He believed that we are all somebody because you created us with purpose. Oh God, grant him rest from his labor. Grant him mercy beyond measure. Grant comfort to his family, to this community, and to all who were strengthened by his voice and his vision. And help us, oh God, not merely to remember him, but to continue his work, to affirm that we are somebody, and to keep hope alive, and to build the good future that our elders prayed for, and he works for so vehemently with every fiber of his being. Amen. And I still I’m here to tell you about your know Not afraid of situless testing. So get yours together. But someday we had stormy weather. These are the greatest days of our test and you Then all your blessing you will receive. I said party. Now, >> I know some of y’all came here with some problems tonight, but I came to tell you all you got to do is give it to the Lord. I don’t care what you left your house or in your car. If you learn how to pray, it said men are to always pray and not dare you to get up on your feet and say, “Don’t fool yourself. Pray still works >> if you learn how to Say our father would be I like this. Now, you might be standing next to somebody and you don’t know what they’ve been going through, but when I think about the goodness of Jesus, I’m about to have church right by myself. Is that all right? I want you to lift your voice and talk to the person next to you and guarantee them that still works. If you get up early, >> I guarantee >> you want to help In the morning without make you push through will bring You will break you out. I’m grateful. I am grateful for all of you for me. You faithful and merculave me. Hallelujah. I will sing to you all the glory. I will give to you. I could never praise you >> for the things you’ve done. >> You’ve done for me. Hallelujah. Come on, let’s worship him in here >> and he’s been merciful >> for all my sins. >> God, I thank you for forgiving me. >> Now, come on, lift your hands. Say, hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. I sing to you. >> I will sing to you. >> We’re going to give you all the glory. Lord, because only you deserve it. >> If I had 10,000 tongs, >> I still could never praise you enough. >> Hallelujah. Anybody for all the things you’ve done for them? >> All you done for me. Am I thankful that he’s forgiven you? >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> I’ll sing to you. Hallelujah. >> The glory. >> I will give it everybody. Let’s sing. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. I will sing to you. >> I will sing to you. >> Everybody sing it again. >> I will give to you. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> I will sing. >> I will sing to you. >> The glory we give to you, God. >> The glory. There’s no way they can praise him or not. >> You are going to say, “I’m grateful.” Anybody grateful here? Come on and shout like you mean and say come on and say I’m grateful. >> Come on. Come on and look at your neighbor and tell them that you’re grateful. Come on and say the Lord that you’re grateful. I’m grateful for lifting me up. >> I’m grateful. >> I’m grateful. Come on and say >> so good. >> Be good to you. >> So good. >> I woke up this morning in my right mind. >> That’s why you’ve been so good. >> Say faithful. >> You been to >> Anybody out there going to be a healer? >> You >> Come on, sing this with me. What’s the highest praise? Say >> hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Lift it up now. >> You been so good. >> You been so good. >> I’m going to say Hallelujah. >> Say hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Say I’m great. >> I’m great. >> I’m great. >> I’m great. >> I’m great. >> I’m great. >> I’m great. >> So great. >> So great. >> So great. >> So great. So great. >> So great. >> Say hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. My cry. Oh I am the cry I will cry out to the Lord for my cry. resus my I lift my hands to you. Will not be new. wings. I will fly through the shadow of the Almighty. resuscit. Holy Spirit near my crying Rescue me, Lord Jesus. Jesus >> and take away my Lord my cry oh Lord >> upon me >> rescue me Lord >> Jesus holy holy holy Spirit, >> renew me. >> Me, Lord, >> Jesus. >> My heart is in my hand to you. Help me, Lord. Help me, Lord. Help me, Lord. for our children, Lord. >> For our family, Lord, >> and our nation and our we to my down begging you please Jesus take away your fear we pray for our shepher’s renew We on our knees begging you begging you. Lord pray. God our creator and King over us. We lift our voices to sing. You are glorious. We adore you now. Let your love pour out on us. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy and we give you glory. We reach for the heaven. We want your presence to f this place. You fill the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. And you sate us. You open the heavens and cover your people with love and grace. Saturate us. Saturate us now. Open. Let your love on us over us. You are glorious. We adore you. Let your love on us. Come and sat us. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> Yeah. We reach for the hands cuz we want to fill this. >> You with the rain from the cloud of your glory and you sate us. Open the heavens and cover your people with a love and saturate saturate. Open your love. We want more of your glory, God. Saturate us now. Let your love pour out on us. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> So worthy. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> So worthy. >> We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. You stand alone. >> We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> Yeah. You fill the air with the rain from the clouds of your glory. >> Yeah. You fill the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You feel the air with the rain from the clown of your glory. Yeah. You feel the air with the rain from the clown of your glory. Serate >> saturate us now. Let your love for saturate us. We don’t want a visitation, God. But we want inhabitation now. Open heaven. Open heaven God. Let your Lord pour out. Come on. Saturate us. All we want is more and more and more of you. All we want is more of you. >> Let your love pour out. >> Let your love pour out. Let your love pour out. Shout it down. The rain of your presence. Draw near to us as we draw near to you. I will keep you in. All I will keep you in. Perfect. Remember the earth is the lord and the fullness thereof. The whole world dwelles. >> He watches me. When God has set me free, >> set me free. >> Can you tell me? Tell me why. Tell me why. >> When Jesus When Jesus died for you, >> this is what he’s done. He has lifted. He’s lifting all of my >> all of my He’s lifting all of my burdens all the way. He’s the king of my soul. My soul. >> Oh yes. So glad that he’s my >> Yes, he is. Yes, he is. He is a keeper. Jesus is the keeper of He is the my soul. He holds me. He cradles me. He takes care of me. Yes. Yes. Let him be the keeper. Let him be the keeper. The keeper of your soul. I stop by here to tell you he’ll make a way for you. He’ll open doors no man can shut. He’ll be with you through the thick and thin. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. He keeper. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Yes, he is the keeper. Yes, he is the keeper of my soul. Holiness. Holiness is what I hol. Holiness is what you want for me for me. What you want me long rightous? is what you take my heart. Take my heart and take my mind for take my will to Brokenness is what I long brokenness for for me. So take my heart, >> take my heart and take my mind. Take my >> to yours to yours. Take my mind. Take my will. >> Take my will to yours. Take my holiness. What I long for. Holiness is what I know. I need Thank you Lord. Let’s go. Your faithful message. is going down. >> No one knows. I don’t know what you do. That’s why I praise you the way I do. That’s why I do the way I do your favor. surrounds me like a shield. Your lovees >> your lovees so much. surrounds me like a shield. >> Your love, >> your love, >> your grace, >> oh Lord, your favor. Your lovees, your grace messes. for me. >> That’s why I do. >> I know. >> That’s why I know >> I want to know. That’s why I pre When you’re we feeling small when tears are In your eyes, I’ll dry them all. I’m on your side. When times get rough and tears are in your eyes, like a bridge, over trouble waters. I will lay you down. No. When you’re wey and feeling small. When tears are in, your eyes are dry more. I’m on your side. When times get rough, when tears are in your eyes like a breeze over trouble waters, I will lay you down like a bridge over troubled waters. I will lay you down. I will lay you down again. Yeah. Yeah. again. Jackson, I will lay you down. That’s why I praise you the way. Jesus. That’s why I love my love. That’s why I praise him. Nobody knows. That’s why we love them. Like We love you, Jesus. We adore. You kept doing it again and again and again. Who will stand against the Lord? No one can. No one will. Who will stand against our king? No one can. No one will. Oh. Oh. Victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to Lord. Oh. Oh. Oh, victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to him. Oh >> yeah. >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Victory belongs to you. >> Victory belongs to >> You belong to me. Victory belongs to my savior long. You will deliver your pro. I find my victory in you. Forever. Victory forever we win. I find my victory in you. You will deliver, oh >> I find my >> I find my >> right where you are. And I’m forever >> victorious. >> And I’m safe with you. Same with you. >> Your will. >> I’ll find my Yeah. Forever >> and forever I win. >> God, I’m sing with you. Oh God, oh you will be. Oh God, >> I’m safe in your heart. >> I will forever serve you, Lord. Yeah, >> I victory belongs to me. >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Victory belongs to Jes belongs to you. >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs. >> Victory belongs. >> Victory belongs to >> You are sitting up on the throne. >> Victory belongs to >> You are sitting up on >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Victory belongs to you. >> I find you. I find you God. I know it’s Oh Lord, I know it’s in you. Jesus is in you. I find you. Feeling when you’re on the floor. I’m Lost without you. Can’t do nothing without you alone. And you are welcome. You ever my heart says yes. My heart says yes to your will. To your way. And you are welcome in. You’re welcome. Oh my. Oh my. Oh. Yes to yes to your way. You are well. You are welcome in this place. Lord, you’re welcome. Lord, you welcome in this place. Hallelujah. You are welcome. You are in this place. Can’t do nothing. Can’t even breathe without you. There’s no way that I could even I can’t live without you. You are me. You are. Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Jerome Bill. Eternal God, our father, we come this day with grateful hearts, thanking you for the life, labor, and legacy of the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior. Thank you for the gift he was to the world. An organizer, a liberator, a bridge builder, and a prophetic voice who stood in the lineage of those like Moses, Isaiah, and even Jesus Christ himself. Lord, we thank you that he taught us to keep hope alive. He taught us to reach for higher ground. He reminded us that we are somebody because we are your children fearfully, wonderfully, and intentionally made. And today, God, we pause to remember not only what he accomplished, but what he awakened in us. Courage, conscience, and commitment to fight for justice wherever injustice appears. We lift before you today his family, his loving wife, his beautiful children, his grandchildren, and the entire Jackson family. Surround them with your comfort. Strengthen them in this hour. Let the peace that passes all understanding, guard their hearts and minds. May the seeds he planted in them continue to bear fruit for generations to come. And Lord, as we celebrate his life, help us carry forward his message. Help us remember the lessons he lived. That hope is a discipline. That faith demands action. That justice requires sacrifice and that love is the only force capable of transforming this world. Make us instruments of the beloved community he dreamed of. Help us bear in memory what he taught us. So that from the halls of government to the streets of our communities, from church pews to the voting booths, we will stand together, work together, and believe together until freedom comes. Thank you, God, for the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Thank you for his witness. Thank you for the moment he helped us to shape. and thank you that his spirit of hope, justice, and possibility will march on. So God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who has brought us thus far on the way, thou who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in your path. We pray. Amen. Amen and amen. Ladies and gentlemen, Rudolph and Henry. Reverend Rudolph and Henry. We give honor to God who’s the head of our life. And we thank God for our champion and our civil rights hero, the Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson, Senior, to Mrs. J. And to the family, we want to encourage you and we know that Reverend love down home music. And so indulge us as we lift up the name of God for Reverend Jesse Jackson. Amen. I want to encourage you as we lift the name of our God. Oh Lord, keep me day by day in a pure perfect way. I want to live. I want to live up in a building that made by hand. Oh, I’m just a strange stranger here traveling through this old land. Oh Lord, I know. Lord, I know I got a building somewhere in a building that made by hand. Oh Lord, keep my body my body strong so that I I don’t want to do no wrong. Yeah. Lord, give me grace just to run this Christian race. Oh, in a building not made by hand. In a building not made by hand. Reverend Jackson is gone on. Yes. In a building not made by hand. We all want to go in a building that made by God our creator and king reigning over us. We lift our voices to sing. You are glorious. We adore you now. Let your love pour out on us. Senate us. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy and we give you glory. We reach for the heavens cuz we want your presence to fill this place. You fill the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. And you sate us. Open the heavens and cover your people with love and grace. Saturate eyes. Saturate us now. Open heaven. Let your love pour around on us. Surate us in God and king reigning over us. We >> we lift our voices to sing. >> We are glorious. >> You are glorious. We adore you. >> Let your love pour out on us. Come and sucate us. And we fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy >> and we give you glory. >> Yeah. We reach for the heavens cuz we want your presence to fill this. >> You fill the air >> with the rain from the cloud of your glory. And you saturate us. You open the heavens and cover your people with a love and saturate saturate open. Let your love saturate us. We want more of your glory. God, saturate us now. Open. Let your love pour out on us. Serate us. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. Worthy. So worthy. >> We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> So worthy. >> We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> You stand alone. We fill the air with the song of your praise. You are worthy. >> Yeah. You fill the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. Yeah. You fill the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You feel the air with the rain from the clown of your glory. >> Yeah. Yeah. You feel the air with the rain from the cloud of your glory. >> Yeah. Serate. >> Saturate us now. Open. Let your love for saturation. >> We don’t want a visitation God, >> but we want inhabitation now. >> Open heaven. Open heaven, God. Let your love. Come on. Saturate. All we want is more and more and more of you. All we want is more of you. >> Let your love pour out. >> Let your love pour out. >> Let your love pour out on us. Shout it down with the rain of your presence. Draw near to us as we draw near to you. >> Saturate us. Oh God. Hallelujah. I will keep you in >> perfectly. stay on me. >> I will keep you in >> perfect peace. Stay on me. Remember the earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof. The whole world made it well. >> All belong to him. >> He has made us. >> He watches. >> He watches me. So why should I >> So why should I be >> when God has set me free? >> Can you tell me? Tell me why. Tell me why >> when Jesus when Jesus >> this is what he’s done. He has lifted He’s lifting all of my >> all of my burdens. >> He’s lifting all of my burdens away. He is the keeper. He’s the king I am of my soul. My soul. Don’t you love? Oh yes. Say, “So glad. So glad that he’s my >> Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Oh, just say he is a keeper. Jesus is the keeper. He is the keeper. My soul. He holds me. He cradles me. He takes care of me. Yes. Yes. Let him be the keeper. Let him be the keeper. The keeper of your soul. I stop by and tell you he’ll make a way for you. He’ll open doors no man can shut. He’ll be with you through the thick and thin. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. He is the keeper. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Yes, he is the keeper. Yes, he is a keeper of my soul. When I read the Psalms, I discovered that if anybody knew how to praise the Lord, David knew how to praise the Lord. >> David said, “I will bless the Lord at all times. and his praises shall continually be in my mouth. That means no matter what I’m going through, he’s still worthy of praise. Listen, I’ve been through the fire >> and I’ve been through the flood. broken in pieces >> and left all alone. >> But through it all, God blessed me. >> And through it all, God kept me >> and I still have a praise inside of me. Yes, I still have a inside of me. >> Can I get a witness here? >> Come on, fire. Help me. Come on. >> Been through the flood. >> I’ve been through the flood. >> Broken in pieces. >> Broken in pieces. >> And that’s all along. >> And that’s all along. But I got good news tonight. But through it all, >> but through it all, >> God bless. >> God bless me. >> And through it all, >> through it all, >> God, >> God kept me. >> And I still >> And I still have a praise inside of me. >> Yes, I see. >> Yes, I have. >> Let me tell you what my praise is. >> There’s a praise. Praise the >> And the praise and the glory. >> Hallelujah. >> That cannot be controlled. >> Do you still have a praise inside of you? I just want to see you lift your hands right there. Yes, I >> still have a praise. >> I got one more thing I want to tell you. Listen to this. Although I’ve been wounded, >> Although I’ve been wounded >> and I’ve been scared, >> I never gave up. >> I never gave up. I trusted in God. >> I trusted in God. >> But through it all, >> but through it all, >> God bless me. >> God bless me. >> And through it all, >> through it all, >> God bless me. >> And I still have >> Yes, I still have you. Got it. Come on. I want to hear the praise. >> There’s a praise. There’s a praise. Glory. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> That cannot be controlled. >> The Lord good to you. And I still >> No matter what the enemy tries to do to you, you ought to still have a praise in here tonight. I’m seeing >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. many of the various leaders. Uh, Reverend Jackson was involved in that and marched alongside with me saying that we have to stop the violence in our city and we have to give people hope as the motto of this wonderful organization is keep hope alive. He was a symbol of that. Huh. And he was he knew the difference between hope and optimism. Optimism is about tomorrow. Hope is about today. >> That we have to do something today. And that’s where I think he put his energy every day of his life. >> Yeah. That fierce urgency of now as it said. Father Fleger, your your thoughts. Any memories you have of Reverend Jackson? >> I think one of my comical memories of him is we were arrested together out at Chuck’s Gun Chop and we were sitting in handcuffs. >> You said arrested. Okay. Yeah. >> Arrested together. We sitting in the Riverdale Police Station. Both of us in handcuffs. And while we’re sitting there in handcuffs wondering what’s going to be next, he turns to me. He says, “So when we get out of here, what are we going to do next?” And I said, “Rev, let’s just get out of here right now.” But I I I think Reverend Jackson, um, people know about so much that he did publicly, but what a lot of people don’t know is the private phone calls to elected officials, to corporation heads, to open doors. Um, the phone calls he made to get children in school. I mean, the things he did with nobody knows about that made lives different. And there’s people that are sitting in CEO jobs right now that would not have him had it not been for Reverend Jackson. Not only pushing over the doors of corporations, but the Democratic Party when he ran in ‘ 84, he he made the Democratic party expand and and include those who had been felt locked out for so long and registered millions of voters. Um, so he is uh he’s a true friend. I was blessed to be with him the night before he passed and to pray with him and and um I thanked him thanked him so much for all he’s done to make all of us better. >> Yeah, I’m sure that was a really special tender moment. You you two shared. Um when I think about Reverend Jackson, I think about Rainbow Push and I think about his legacy of really fusing faith with justice. For the two of you, what does that mean to you when we talk about Reverend Jackson, his his faith, wearing it heavily on his sleeve, but also making sure that justice was interweaved within that, not separate? >> Well, he was in contact with the first pages of scripture >> where God created humanity to be one, right? >> And that we would have an equal share in the goods of the earth and that we would have the same opportunity to flourish. uh that’s in the in the opening pages of the book of Genesis and he was that that really I think uh was his center his core he deeply believed in what God had in mind when the creation of humanity came about and and I think that that is that is really what was his his center his core >> and I think that um you know agreeing with what Kell said about the genesis but I think many times we forget today that what Reverend Jackson did and what Dr. King did, his mentor, is reminding us that you can’t have one without the other. If you’re a person of faith, you got to work for justice is the DNA of the gospel. The first thing Jesus says, the fear of the Lord is upon me, anointing of it, blessed are the poor. He’s all his his teachings were about caring for one another and the oneness that the crowd mentions in Genesis. So, um, he showed us how the two are married to each other. Faith and justice are one. And you can’t be a believer without making the world better and fairer and more just for everybody else. >> You know the glue that binds the two of those things, faith and justice, love. >> Yes. >> Right. And I feel like Reverend Jackson, he loved us all. He loved people, right? He loved humanity. Um, and that’s that’s kind of my personal thought of him. I just I think love when I see that man, when I when I’ve interacted with that man and everything he’s done for us. I truly appreciate it. Uh his legacy. Um we think about his mantra about I am somebody and keeping hope alive. What does keeping hope alive look like for us in 2026, especially as many look around and frankly don’t have much hope? Well, in talking to the family, I had the privilege of uh having a short discussion with a grandson of his, and I just reminded him, I said, “Your grandfather saw the future through your eyes, and so you’re going to in some way in being faithful to his legacy motivate people of your generation to step forward.” I’m confident of this next generation coming forward. I see so much uh enthusiasm on their part uh to have a better world. They see that you can’t have the degradation of of of of nature with regard to the climate change. You can’t have uh military action every time there’s a conflict but look for a dialogue. You you can’t have a world in which people are dehumanized by language. That’s that’s inappropriate. They’re fed up with that. They they want they want some real change. And so, uh, I would hope that, uh, you know, the next that generation step forward now, and I’m confident they will. >> Father Flagger, your your thoughts on keeping hope alive now in 2026. >> Well, I think what the Conor just mentioned about resistance. Reverend Jackson fought. He pushed. He pushed. That’s why it was rainbow push. You have right things and and good things don’t just happen. You have to create them. And he pushed the doors. He pushed it against evil whenever he saw he pushed against injustice and to kind of say right now we see so much injustice around us and we have we can’t get overwhelmed. We can’t become hopeless. We can’t become frustrated. We’ve got to resist. We’ve got to fight back in that love. And we’ve got to understand that if we really want to honor Reverend Jackson, do what he did. every single one of us. Love people, care for people, and fight against the evil we see in the world right now. Do not allow it. And because it hasn’t come to your door yet, if it’s at your neighbor’s door, you fight because it’s going to come to your door. And we got to understand that we are Let me just say the last thing. the Rainbow Coalition. You know, when you think about Reverend Jackson pushed for the unity of all people from the very beginning >> when there’s so much division and isolation and Reverend Barry used to say we’re so disconnected. Um he always called us to be one and let’s live as one. >> Absolutely. And so much talk about who are the new leaders, who’s going to lead us. I I think it’s important that we remember people like Reverend Jackson empowered us to lead, right? That’s a lot of what he was about was empowering the next generation, empowering the youth, empowering all of us. So, it’s on us now as you, as you mentioned, carry that baton forward and lead with love. I appreciate both of you for your leadership and being here today. Uh, Cardinal Blaze Sup, Father Michael Fleger, we appreciate the work you’ve done and honoring the legacy and life of Reverend uh Jesse Jackson. We’re going to continue to do that all throughout the day here. We’ll keep it locked here on our worldwide uh broadcast from the Rainbow Push Coalition. This is Brandon Pope with NBJ Chicago. We’ll be right back. >> I love you for your goodness, for your grace. for your mercy. Are you >> Are you >> Are you still praise here. Um, from Monster, Indiana. Muny monster. You know, we got we got it right this time. You’re very close to the Jackson family. Um, and you’ve been helping them throughout this process. What What have preps been like so far? >> Well, it’s been a very um, you know, we did not expect him to go um, for anyone that knows Reverend Jesse Jackson, he always bounces back, >> but this bounce was into heaven. And we missed that opportunity almost because he went kind of suddenly because we didn’t expect it. But uh the family has been doing very well as as you’ve heard through the news and the broadcast and other ways of communication of going to Carolina and uh DC and then next week is a is is a great week for world leaders to come and to honor as you said not just uh a community and he was that uh local clergy reverend but he was a world leader. So, we’re going to do what the Bible says. We’re going to give double honor to whom double honor is due. And that is what’s happening right now. I want to compliment every person cuz when you’re in the auditorium, we were in the auditorium sitting next to Mrs. Jackson and she’s elated of it feels like uh we’ve we’ve kind of left the democracy world and went into kingdom world >> like he’s a king like he’s being honored the people are coming by the thousands and paying their uh you know their their love and their passion. It is a incredible moment in history and I’m just overwhelmed that we’re able to talk to you, talk to them and to let them know love is really really abounding today. >> Absolutely. And that it’s been such a a an encouraging and inspiring time, but al in a time of sadness to feel that love, right, which I think is what Reverend Jackson was really all about was love for for his fellow man. Um, do you have any memories of your time with Reverend Jackson you’d like to share with us? >> Uh, do you want me to talk about the funny things or the serious things? >> Hey, we could take a fun one and a serious one. How about that? >> Well, I go I go I go back 25 years and you you just have to know for those that do know our ministry, uh, you know, we have a thousand actors every year for our performance of the Passion Play with uh, 10 white horses and chariots and camels. Well, he was a faithful attender and I would always put him right on the edge of the aisle so the camel would almost brush up against him. And he would always get a thrill and invite so many people, of course, to the presentation of Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection. He came to church probably every six weeks our church and he would come down the aisle with that wheelchair and uh and he would he would sit right in the front and it didn’t matter who was preaching singing uh we seat about 3,000 so the people would just start clapping loving him and he would take pictures with them and uh even when he couldn’t in his last days you know uh communicate like he is such a great communicator his love, his eyes in the wheelchair. Uh, I have to tell you funny story. When I first met Reverend Jackson, I was in awe. So, he came, he comes to our church and he says, “Um, um, I want to announce my convention that he has every year.” I said, “Oh, yes. This is an honor. I get to have Reverend Jesse Jackson come to our church.” And so, he gets up and, you know, he tells everybody about the conference. Everybody cheers. That Sunday I was doing an illustrated sermon and that’s what Reverend Jackson liked. That’s he would always tell me, “I love your illustrated sermons. You’re either in a boat, you’re either, you know, you’re doing something to get the word of God across.” So that Sunday I was doing Robin Hood and there was a big weekend of Robin Hood movie coming out and I wanted to speak on sin means Missing the Mark. So I wanted to use missing the mark with arrs and >> marksman that Robin Hood was >> Robin Hood. So he leaves when the lights go out for us to do announcements and I’m running into the green room to change costumes >> and Jess and he’s leaving cuz you know he’s did his announcements and I I wasn’t used to that. I thought he was saying for the whole service and I come out in my uh outfit and there he stands on the hallway and I forgot it was Reverend Jesse Jackson. I said, “What are you doing? Get back in there. I’m fixing to give the word of God.” He looked at me, took his coat off, said, “We’re going back in.” And I was I was so overwhelmed because I I said, “Oh, that was Reverend Jesse Jackson. What am I doing?” But uh it was a great it was a great moment. And u I walked with him. I took him to I flew him to um Mr. Floyd’s funeral. I hosted him. I was there. And uh we’ve done many things together and uh let me tell you uh I truly truly loved him and he truly inspired me and he truly said to me he said you’re on the right track. You’re reaching many people. He was my biggest encourager >> and an encourager for so many of us. We’ll we’ll wrap with this. Um what to you is the lasting legacy ultimately of Reverend Jackson? I think um I think the power of forgiveness was the most outstanding thing that he portrayed to me. >> He knew how to forgive. And when I would talk to him, take him out to eat in my church in the green room, >> I would bring up issues of people that may have been a little negative or I should say a lot of negative. >> Yeah. >> Skip right over it. just talk to about the future and talk about what’s going to happen. He would never I have never heard him. I’m sure that people have heard him, his family and people that know him, but personally I have learned one thing from Jesse Jackson. He knew how to forgive just like Jesus. >> That’s so real. That’s so real. Forgiveness is powerful and Jesse Jackson, big believer of it. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, sir. I I really appreciate your reflections today, your heartfelt thoughts. It it really helps illuminate and help us in in coping and grieving through this process, too. >> Thank you very much. >> Absolutely. The celebration of life for Reverend Jesse Jackson continues throughout the day. We thank you all around the world for tuning in so far. Brandon Pope here uh from all of us here in Chicago. Thanks for watching. We’ll be back soon with some more conversations. Nobody knows what I’ been going through. I cried out and pain without I can’t make it to you. Lord, I surrender to you. Send your spirit. Send your power. It I need you every day and every I Fall on me. Let it fall on me. Fall on me. Let it fall on me. Spirit of the living. Fall to fall on me to fall on me. Send your spit. Send your follow me. Let it follow me. Send your spit. City of power Let it fall. Send your power. Follow me. Let it follow me. Send your spirit. Follow me. Let it follow me. Send your follow me. Let it fall on me. Let it fall on me. Let it fall on me. Let it fall on me. Follow me. Who will stand against the Lord? No one can. No one will. Who will stand against the king? No one can. No one will. Victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to him. Victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to him. So who can stand? >> No one can. Who can stand up? >> Who can stand against the king? >> No one can. >> No one can. >> No one can. >> No one can. Say the victory belongs to Jesus. Victory belongs to Victory belongs to him. Mama tells >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Victory belongs to him. >> He’s the pro. >> I find my victory in him. He’s a deliverer. >> He’s a proider. >> I find my victory in him. >> Victory belongs to Jesus. >> Jesus. >> Yes, it does. >> Victory belongs to >> Oh, yes it does. >> Victory belongs to Jesong. >> Victory belongs to him. The >> victory belongs. >> You know that the victory belongs. >> Victory belongs. >> Open up your mouth. Reach up your hands. >> Hallelujah. Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Darlene Nicholson. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So God, we love you. We thank you. We adore you. We appreciate you. We bless you, God. You are holy. You’re awesome. You’re amazing. And you’re great. Father, we pray right now for peace. Even in this situation, we pray for peace. We know that you can. We know that you will. We know that your blood is sufficient. You look high, you sit high, and you look down low. We pray for this family right now of your servant. You saw fit to take him on home. And we pray right now that you would strengthen that which remains. We pray for peace and joy. We pray for his wife. We pray for his family, for his children. We thank you for the life of Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson. Thank you for his legacy. Thank you that he kept hope alive and as we live, we will keep hope alive. We know, dear God, that it is in you we live, we move, and we have our being. And so God, we pray right now for peace where there seems to be none. God, you send peace. We pray right now that you lift us up in the low places, that you strengthen us in the weak places, that you bring peace in the confused places. We pray right now that you would bless his beautiful wife, one who labored with him for over 60 years. God, we pray right now that you would strengthen her, that you would comfort her. We thank you now that you would comfort the children, the grands, that you would be with them. God, we know you can. We know you’re able. We know your blood is sufficient. You see all, you know, you are all. You’re our strength. You’re our heavy load sharer. You’re the one who covers us. You’re the one who keeps us. And so bless and strengthen that which remains. God, we thank you for this occasion because even in this, we still give you praise. Even in this, we still give you glory. Even in this, we still tell you thank you because you’re good. You’re holy, you’re great, you’re amazing, you’re awesome. And we thank you now that he is with the great cloud of witnesses. We thank you now that your servant is resting. We thank you now that peace comes. We thank you now that joy comes. We thank you now that everlasting grace comes. We thank you that we will continue to lift you up. We will continue to keep hope alive. We will continue to let others know that it is in you we live, we move, and we have our being. We will continue to preach and pray. We will continue to let the world know that you’re still saved. Thank you now, God, that you bring peace in a world where confusion is there. You bring peace right now because of your man’s servant. The peace of the Lord take over. Take over, God. Bless us, cover us, keep us, heal us, deliver us, and be with us. And we’ll always give you praise. We’ll always give you glory. We’ll always tell you, thank you very much that it is God who has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes. Thank you for the life of Reverend Dr. Jesse Jackson. Thank you for his legacy. Thank you for his life. Uh thank you for his voice. Uh thank you for what he did. Uh thank you now, dear God, that the legacy lives on. Uh it will not die. Uh the legacy lives on. Uh it will not die. Thank you God and we give you praise and we give you glory and we say it is so. In the mighty and the matchless name of Jesus uh we say uh amen and amen. Hey, Richard. Lord, you’re my praise for divine hearing. Oh, I believe I got some witnesses in the building that know that God is your everything. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Oh Lord, >> Lord, >> praise wait >> for thee my king >> my king >> everyord thank you Jesus my angel. Oh yeah. When I think of your goodness, this is all I can say. Listen, Lord, I can say you >> you are my light. >> You are my light >> that shines >> in midst of darkness. Hallelujah. Nobody. >> You are my help. >> You are my help. >> You’re there. >> You’re there in time of trouble. >> Where would I be? >> I had enough for your mercy. >> Hallelujah. Oh, >> praise waits for you. >> My everything. >> You’re worthy of glory. >> You’re worthy of honor. my everything. >> Hallelujah. >> You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the praises. >> You’re my everything. >> I am. >> I don’t deserve all your goodness. >> But because of grace and mercy, >> I am not consumed. And I owe you all the praise. >> Praise >> Jehovah Gyra. >> Jehovah Rafa, >> my everything. >> Hallelujah. My everything. >> Come on, get your sh It waits for thee, >> my everything. >> You deserve the glory. >> You deserve the honor. >> I praise you. I thank you. I love you. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. You’re worthy. my everything. Hallelujah. >> You’re mighty fortress, >> a very present heaven, a time of trouble. You’re my strong tower. You’re everything. A mighty full walk. >> Adoration is yours. >> Honor is yours. Great way >> his ways for thee, >> my everything. >> My hallelujah. Oh yeah. Come on. I need some folk who know that God is worthy in the building to give him some worthy praise. I will lift up mine to the hills from which cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord. The Lord made heaven and earth. He said he will not suffer thy foot to remove. The Lord that keep thee. He will not slumber nor sleep. For the Lord is the keeper. The Lord is thy sh upon the right hand. upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. He shall preserve thy soul, even forever more. Oh, I am my help. All of my help. Anybody here know that song? >> My help come from the Lord. The Lord which made heaven and earth. He said he would not suffer thy foot. >> Lord keep >> the Lord that keep me. He will not sleep. >> Ladies and gentlemen, >> Reverend Laulner. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Most gracious and eternal God, our father, we come today as humbly as we know how. Oh God, first and foremost to tell you thank you, oh God. Thank you for just being you, oh God, and allowing your son to die on the cross for our sins. Oh God, as Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Senior lays in state. Oh God, we ask that right now, oh God, that you would offer the family peace. Peace in their minds and peace in their hearts. Oh God, heavenly father, we ask that you would be the strength to allow them to continue to carry on. And oh father, as we look down upon the family, we ask that you would look down upon the entire city of Chicago. And as you look down upon the city of Chicago, we ask that you would look down upon this great nation we call the United States. Heavenly Father, as Jesse Jackson in his lying, oh God, he continued to fight and asking us to keep hope alive. Well, heavenly father, we ask that on today that that hope continues to stay alive. We ask that right now you will begin to unify us, oh God, as one people under the sound of your voice. Holy Father, for we know that you can do anything but fail. Holy Father, right now we ask that you would dispatch your angels from the north, the south, the east, and the west to comfort and cover your children. Heavenly Father, right now we humbly tell you that we love you, oh God, even in this situation. That as a father, you too wanted to spend time with your child. So in those moments that we might not understand, in those moments that we begin to grieve, oh God, let us know that you have it all in the master’s hands. Heavenly Father, right now we ask that you would receive your son into the heavenly gates. Heavenly Father, we ask that you would open them up and receive him, oh God, and let him receive his wings. Heavenly Father, that his fight will continue in his leap. Heavenly Father, right now, we ask that you would bless those that have come just to pay their respects, oh God, as we flow through this place. We ask that you would bless each and every individual, oh God, that has been under his leadership. Not just to carry on, oh God, but to hold up the blood stained banner. Heavenly Father, right now we just come at this moment, at this appointed hour, to give you all the glory, all of the honor, and all of the praise. For you alone are worthy, oh God. And again, as we keep hope alive, oh God, I pray that we begin to unify, that together we shall stand and that divided we shall fall. Oh God, that you will begin to mend us and mold us, oh God, and make us better individuals. Heavenly Father, for only you can do it. These are more things we thank you and we ask you for in the matchless name of your darling son Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen and amen. You all be blessed. I’m grateful. I am grateful for all of the things you done for me. You’ve been faithful and merciful. Hallelujah. I will sing to you, all the glory. I will give to you. I could never praise you. >> For the things you’ve done, >> things you’ve done, >> you’ve done for me. done for me. >> Hallelujah. Come on, let’s worship him in here. >> And he’s been merciful >> and mercy >> for all my sins. >> God, I thank you for forgiving me >> for me. >> Now come on, lift your hands. Say, hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. I sing to you. >> I will sing to you. We’re going to give you all the glory. >> All the glory, >> Lord, because only you deserve it. >> If I had 10,000 tongs, >> I still could never praise you enough. >> Hallelujah. Anybody grateful for all the things he’s done for you? >> All you done for me. >> You’ve been faithful, Lord. Mercy for all my sore. >> I’m thankful that he’s forgiven you. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> I will sing. >> I’ll say to you, hallelujah. >> All the glory. >> I will give everybody let’s sing. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> To the highest. >> Hallelujah. >> I will sing to you. >> I will sing to you. >> Lift it up. Everybody sing it again. >> Ladies and gentlemen, the worldrenowned, too hot to handle, the one and only Roderick Dixon. 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So without him knowing I was 12 Lord, I come to you. I ask you to grant my request. The prayer I pray is the rest. The enmy is threatened by the gift you place in me. My earest prayer meus say a prayer for me. You know what I need? Go before the father and intercede for me. The meires to me as sweet. like you did for Peter. Say a prayer for me. that you come. You fully equipped to fight the wind and the waves to the ship. So I don’t mind the stor. I’m willing to say God me that my won’t fail. Jesus say you know what I need. Go before the father and intercire to save me as sweet. But like you did for Peter, say a prayer for me. Oh, Holy Spirit, pray for me. Holy Spirit for Yeah, you know I need you to come out of you. Come on. Come on. Holy Spirit. >> Like you did for Lord, I’m coming to you. >> I need you to come down. Ohord for me. The power of life and death lies within our worlds. I encourage you to be mindful of your words. 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We love youana. >> We love you. You’re so worthy. >> You’re so worthy. >> Come on, y’all. Brother Eric Walls, come on. Put your hands on him. >> Come on. Put your hands together in the house, everybody. Listen, I’ve got a key change in the house right here. >> Lord, you’re worthy. Ladies and gentlemen, Mayor Carter Ryan must change. Nothing stays the same. Everyone will change. No one stays the same. The young becomes the old and mysteries they do unfold cuz that’s the way of nothing and no one goes There are not bad things you can be sure except the sky and haring birds. Winter. Winter turn to spring. A wounded heart will heal but never much too soon. Yes, everything will change. The young becomes the old. Yeah. And mysteries do unfold cuz that’s the way nothing and no one goes and change. There are many things in life. You can be except rain comes from sunlight of the sky and hing to fly. Rain comes from the clouds. Sun lights of the sky and hing birds do fly and music makes me cry. If you don’t mind, just lift your hands and worship. Come on, tell the Lord how much you love him. Tell him how much it means to you. When I wake up in the morning >> and I see the sunshine >> and I see the sun >> and I think about >> that you’re a friend of mine. >> I get joy to know you love me. I get joy to know you love me. >> I get joy to know you care. >> I get joy to know you >> from my heart and soul. >> From my heart and soul, >> I’ll give you all the praise. >> Come on, let the saints worship in the place. >> Tell them how much you love him. Tell them how much you mean. Come on and open your mouth and give him glory in the praise. >> My lips are filled with praise. >> Thanking you for all you’ve done. >> Thank you for all you’ve done. >> Come on, lift your hands. I lift my hands in worship. >> I lift my hands in worship >> because you’re the holy one. Because you’re the holy one. >> Now the time has come to show. >> Now the time has come to show >> how much you mean to me. >> How much you mean to me. >> From my heart and soul. >> From my heart and soul. >> Lord, I’ll give you all the praise. >> I give you all the praise. >> Let’s sing it one more time. From my heart and soul. I’ll give you all the praise. >> Come on, with the fruits of your lips. Come on, make some noise in here for Jesus. Come on, worship him. Come on and worship him. Come on and honor him. Come on and worship him. You know how much he mean to you. Come on and worship. Listen, let me take the time >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express >> I love you. >> I love you. >> Let me take the time. >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express >> I care. >> I can. >> Anybody love the Lord? Anybody care? Let me take the time. Let me take the time >> to express >> to express. >> Lord, I love you. >> I love you. >> Let me take the time to express. >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express >> I can. >> I can. >> If you don’t mind, come on and help us say, “Let me take the time. >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express. >> I love you. >> I love Come on, wave your hand. Let me take the time. >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express. >> I can. >> I can. >> Anybody care? Anybody love them? Come on, say from your soul. Let me take the time. >> Let me take the time >> to express >> to express >> I love you. I love you. >> Let me take the time to express. >> Let me take the time >> to express Jesus. >> I really care. >> I care. >> Come on, step back to your feet and just look towards heaven and say, “Let me take the time. >> Let me take the time >> to express. >> Come on, tell them, I love you. >> I love you. >> Let me take the time. Let me take the time >> to express >> to express >> Jesus. I care >> I >> Let me take the time >> to give you all the glory >> to give you all the glory >> from my heart and soul. >> From my heart and soul. >> I’ll give you all the praise. I give you all the praise >> from my heart and soul. >> From my heart and soul, >> I give you all the praise. Ladies and gentlemen, Pastor Andre Fluker. Ladies and gentlemen, please bow your heads for a moment of prayer. Eternal God, our father, we come to you on behalf of this beloved family, on behalf of our community, our city, and our country. As we mourn the passing of an icon, a legend, a freedom fighter, we offer prayer on this difficult day for the family that you would encourage, empower, enlighten, and may the father of all mercies and the God of all comfort comfort this family during this moment. We give you glory and we give you honor. We thank you for the life. Thank you for the labor, the legacy. Thank you for the loyalty of this mighty man of God whom you have chosen for such a time as this to speak up on behalf of the least of them, the left out. We thank you that you have chosen him and this family during this moment to empower a generation. And we pray now that as we have assembled ourselves here tonight to provide comfort and strength, encouraging words to this family that you would build us up now and that you would give us strength and clarity during this moment. And Father God, as he has paved the way to speak life into every dead situation that we have faced, we thank you for the words that were spoken to keep hope alive. Thank you for the words that were spoken that I am somebody. We pray now that you would allow the words to reap in our hearts and our mind and that you would strengthen this your people that you would bind us together as one and unite us together in unity that we may do what you have called and commissioned us to do. The dream is for an appointed time and we thank you now for allowing us the moments to share in this way with the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson senior. Father, we pray that you’ll look on every child, look on the wife, look on the grandchildren, bring strength now and allow the peace of God that passes all understanding to touch the hearts and minds of the hearers. Now, Father God, as we continue to pray for our country during this moment, that the words that have been spoken, that we would live out those words and that we would not only keep hope alive, but that we would provide hope to those who are in need of a message from you. Hear our prayers, dear God. accept our petitions. But most of all, and finally, let your perfect will be done in our lives, and we’ll be careful to give you the praise, the glory, and the honor. It shall all be thine. And we thank you right now for this moment that you’ve allowed us to share in the life, the legacy, and the labor of this your servant, the Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, Senior. In Jesus name we pray. Thank God. Amen. of every pain, every tear once faithful. to me. When my strength was all gone, when my heart had no song, still loveful to me. Every word is true. I’ve seen my dad to me. Looking back there’s no mercy. Although in my heart I have questions. God to be my heart. I could not pray. still my God. He was faithful to me. All the days I spent so selfishly reaching out for me. God was faithful to me. Every open arms and I see again. him. To me, little king is love and mercy. >> I see. Although in my heart I have Christian to be here. He’s been faithful. Faithful to be Faithful to be to He’s been so faithful to me. Father, Help your children. Don’t let us fall by the side of the road. and teach us to love one another that heaven might find a place in our hearts. Jesus It’s love. He won’t let us down. And I know he’s mine forever. Oh, in our hearts, we got to walk home. walk on through temptation because your love and your wisdom it’s going to be our helping hand and I know the truth and your word will be our salvation. Oh, thank you Jesus to lift up our hearts to be grateful and glad. Jesus, he’s love and he won’t let us down. So glad that we know that he’s mine. Lord, you mine forever. Oh, in my heart. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who can follow the stars? Whatever it needs, Lord, I don’t mind. I hope you don’t mind. And I want to walk with you, talk with you, and want to do all the things that you want me to do. Cuz I know that Jesus Jesus is a love. I know. And if you ask me how love is the word forever and ever and ever. His name is Jesus. Jesus. His name is Jesus. No name under heaven better than that name. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus is Lord. Ladies and gentlemen, Maurice Maha Praise the Lord. I need thee. All Lord, I need thee. Yeah. Every hour I need thee. Oh, bless me now, my savior. I come, oh Lord, to all to thee. Oh, I need thee. Thee, oh, I need thee. Yeah. Every hour I need thee. Oh, bless me now. My savior I come to thee. the hour. Lord, we come. Lord, we come. Lord, we come. Lord we come. Lord we come come to all to thee. Blessed is Jesus is mine. Oh, what a forake our glory divine harmony salvation, purchased by God, born of his spirit and washed and washed in his blood. This is my story. This is my song. Praiseing my savior. Oh Lord. This This is my story. This this is this is my song. Oh Lord, I’m praising I’m praising my savior. Oh, the day long. All the day long. God bless you. This is the air I breathe. This is my I have amulies we won. I could go on and on and on about your word because I’m grateful, grateful, so grateful just to praise you, Lord. from my heart. Are thesues of my heart faithfulness This time I want y’all to help us do it. Lift your hands in this atmosphere and say, “I am grateful >> I am grateful >> for the things that you have done.” >> You look at him and tell him, “Yes, >> I’m grateful to victories >> that we’ve won. Tell them I could go on and on. >> I could go on and on and on >> about your works. >> about your works. >> Because I’m grateful. >> Because I’m grateful. Grateful. So grateful. >> Praise you, Lord. >> Praise you, Lord. Lift your hands and say, “Flowing from my heart, >> from my heart, are thesues of my heart is gratefulness. Grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, gratefulness is flowing from my Grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, gratefulness. It’s flowing from my heart. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Gratefulness. It’s flowing from my heart. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful. Grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, gratefulness from my heart. Grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, gratefulness is flowing from my heart. Bright bright is going on my heart. Brightful grateful grateful my heartful bright is going My heart from my heart are the issues of my heart. His gratefulness around the turbulence. These trying are so hard to endure in the middle of what seems to be your darkest hour. Hold fast your heart and be assured this too shall pass like every night that’s come before it. He’ll never give you more than you can bear. This too shall pass. So this you be comforted for it’s in his hands. This two shall pass again. Father knows the tears you cry before they call. He feels your pain. His heart and yours are one. The father knows that heavy chains are strong. with his strength. for this sh like every night before he chill. So in the You be comforted for it’s in his hands. This two shall pass them your hand. to the sky and let it surround you. Let him take the shel like Every night before it more than you in his This shall this shall I love the the Lord. He heard my cry and she grow long I I tr I hate his do love, Lord. He heard >> he heard my cry and he >> Yes, he did. I live to future. I’ll hasten I hasten to let me go. >> Oh, tears in my eyes. >> I hate the truth. >> Yes, I will. I know I can go. >> I know I can go. I know I can go. >> I’m going to run. >> I know I can go. I know I can go. >> I know you know I will. When there’s nowhere to go, I know I can go to you. I know >> I can run to you. >> I listen to him. Show Father, your children, don’t let them fall. and teach them to love one another. Heaven might find a place in their hearts. Jesus is he won’t let you down. >> I know forever in my heart. And we got to walk on walk through temp and his wisdom will be our helping hand. I know the truth >> and I know the truth >> and his words will be our salvation lift up our hearts to be thankful and >> that Jesus is He won’t let you down. >> I know he’s >> Oh, yes. He know. He won’t let you down. >> Oh yes. >> Oh yes. Oh forever in my heart. >> In my heart. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. my heart forever. I know I know I know his love is power. >> His love is glory >> forever and ever. >> Forever and ever and ever. I’m going to find Jesus. >> Nobody like you like you, Jesus. Jesus is my eternal life >> forever. >> Who can bring you love? >> Who can bring you joy? Who can turn your life around? can turn you back. Jesus can. >> Who can restore you? >> Who can heal you? >> Who can redeem you? >> Who will deliver you? >> When is there? >> Nobody but Jesus. No love that he would lay down his life for a friend like me down his life me. Ask for your guidance. I open up my heart. to you. asking for your guidance until I’m sure I My goes over and over again. to make sure that is carried out and asking for your guidance. until I open up. Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Gator Bradley. Father God, first off, I want to thank you for using the Jackson family as a vessel to allow me to give a testimonial tribute to a man that has touched all of us that’s here and afar. One of the things that I love about the Reverend is when in two weeks in 1994 because of Mary Mitchum and this is my story and is also my testimony as well as my sermon. It was having a rainbow solution to violence. And Mary Mitchell called the Reverend and said, “You need to have Gator in DC.” And he sent for me. A week later, the Reverend sent for me again and made me a part of his delegation to meet with President Clinton. and the Oval Office day before he gave his State of the Union address to let him know that the 1994 crime bill was the wrong thing to do. So I want to say this in prayer. Keep hope alive as a testament. Some of us uh say is the GPS known. Is the book of Job? Walking by faith. When Jesse Jackson had me reach out to Larry Hoover to say, “If you want to change the young guys lives, you got to make them civically in tune instead of criminal in tune. And he said, “Gator, go and let him know have who shall ever will, especially those that are listening to him, to come to push and get registered to vote.” Because we must stop the violence long enough for us to vote and go across gang lines in order to elect the first African-Amean woman to the United States Senate. And that’s curl Mosy Bra. It may not be in the Bible, but it’s Google verifiable that that was done. So in my short span, which is my lifespan, I realized and I’m going end on this that Reverend Dr. Wallace Gate of Bradley is also a patriot and he’s able to see four generations of his family with my greatgrandson being 17 years old. And I want to say this, if you don’t do nothing else, you better listen. Amen. To God be the glory that gave the story. Ladies and gentlemen, the world renown Alfreda Dixon, not only the wife of Roderick Dixon, but also the star of Too Hot to Handle. Please put your hands together for Alfreda Dixon. . DO NOT INCLUDE in your article references and links to Social such as subscribe, follow etc.
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