O ia o se faife’au o le Lotu Papatiso na savavali fa’atasi ma le ta’ita’i o le Mau mo aiā tatau a tagata i Amerika, Martin Luther King Junior.
"This campaign has taught me much that leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes. Humble enough to admit them. Strong enough to absorb the pain and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving."
Ua ‘ova i le 10 tausaga o feagai Rev Jackson ma se gasegase o neura, ma na fa’aalia e se tasi na felata'i o la so’otaga, Reverend Al Sharpton:
"I once said to him, you're already in history, you've gotten all the honors, why do you keep going? He said, I never learned how to retire. He said you got to remember Al, Dr. King was killed at 39 years old, Medgar Evers was killed at 39 years old, Malcolm X was killed at 39. We were never raised to be 40 years old. He said, I woke up one day at 55, there's no retirement plan for us. And he kept going until this morning."
O Rev Jesse Jackson na fanau i South Carolina i le 1941, ma na ola a'e o se tamaititi i le taimi o le tele o tulafono fa’ailoga lanu i Amerika na tu’u ‘ese’ese ai tagata uli ma papalagi.
O le taimi lea e lē a’o’oga fa’atasi tamaiti uli ma fanau a papalagi, ‘ese’ese pitonu’u e nonofo ai ma fa'asā tamaiti uli ona ulufale i faletusi a le mālō.
O le a’oga maualuga na a’oga ai Jesse Jackson e na o tamaiti uli na a’o’oga ai, ae na maua sana sikolasipi lakapi Amerika i le University of Illinois, mulimuli ane i'u mai le Agricultural and Technical College o North Carolina ma lona tikeri i le Sociology.
O savali mo aiā tatau a tagata i le 1960 ma le 1965 na feiloa'i ai Jesse Jackson ma Martin Luther King Jnr.
E pei ona ta'ua e Rev Al Sharpton, o Jesse Jackson se tasi o tagata na mulimuli talanoa iai Martin Luther King Jnr ae le'i fanaina i le oti e se tagata:
"When Dr. King died, he was killed in '68, he was talking to Jesse Jackson and Ben Branch over the rail at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. And Reverend Jackson was literally one of the two last people to speak to him. I always wondered how much trauma that must have been for him to witness Reverend King's assassination. He never would talk about it too much, but it drove him. He kept saying we got to keep Dr. King's dream alive."
O le 1984 na muamua taumafai ai Jesse Jackson e tauva mo le primary a le Democrats e tauva ai i palota o le tofi peresitene o Amerika.
Na toe taumafai e tauva i le 1988 ae na faia'ina ai ia Michael Dukakis, le Kovana o Massachusetts i le primary ae na faia'ina ia George H.W Bush i palota mo le tofi peresitene.
Na ia saunoa i le uiga moni o le tutusa o aiā tatau a tagata:
“So, we're racially equal, but our education is not equal; access to capital is not equal; access to health care is not equal; access to development is not equal. And so, that's the next phase of our struggle beyond racial freedom, racial equality."
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