Rev Jesse Jackson Bio
(1941-)
Rainbow PUSH Coalition
The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. On August 9, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Reverend Jackson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Reverend Jackson has been called the “Conscience of the Nation” and “the Great Unifier,” challenging America to be inclusive and to establish just and humane priorities for the benefit of all. He is known for bringing people together on common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.
you always hear all of us talk about experts. we pay a greater sales tax on tickets than you paid for gun, alcohol, or cigarettes. the tax burden is 20 s term. we have 20%. we have a lot of talk that we will increase that. all this does is cause us to pay for it. we did not run this institution. it has to be put in the ticket price. capacity will come out. there is a cause and effect between these two things. the most remarkable thing is air fares are probably the best one day at have over the last 30 or 40 years. they are down 30% or for the%. it continues to be a phenomenal value. we all take this for granted. competition policy, we ve only recently been able to get a merger approved. boeing gets to by douglas, go manufacturers to one. when the engine manufacturers get together they do a joint ventures so we only have one engine choice. there is consolidation all around the industry. all these people have 8% nortons are margins. 8% or 10% margins. we got this done. if y
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assistant vice president of a nationwide insurance. this is one hour. [applause] look at this crowd. this is amazing. good morning, everybody, and ross yes for being here. we have a packed house at are honored to have two distinguished guests. on behalf of nationwide, it is our honor to welcome mitt romney to the des moines offices. this is our headquarters. we are extremely proud to employ 4500 associates in iowa and recognize the big part they play. today s program is sponsored by the nationwide civic action program. we are sponsoring since 1978. it is our goal to have all of the 2012 candidates visit us. today, we welcome governor mitt romney, who served as the 70th governor of massachusetts from 2003-dublin romney served as a ceo and co-founder of bane capital. he served as the president and ceo of the 2002 salt lake city olympic games organizing committee. he received his undergraduate degree from brigham young university and earned his master s from harvard law at har
party. that ought to bring chills to your body as you think of the spiration. can you hear him now? he would say i understand what it means to be looked down upon. i understand what that means to be held back because of something over which i have no control. i understand he came from a broken background. he has brought healing to this nation and healing to so many lives. since i m a preacher, i might as well the bible. it said he was wounded f our transgressions and bruised from our iniquities. he said we are healed. jesse jackson comes from a background where he has been bruised. the brilliance of it is the nation has experienced a healing that we would not have experience had jesse jackson not become huge taxi jesse jackson has become. i want to thank you because of their backgrounds. it has lifted all of us in the process. i was in the barber shop. pena how we kick it in the barber shop. some brothers were talking about it. they were disrespecting him like that. i sai