Never stop dreaming, never surrender, women deserve equal pay, AIDS, Roosevelt in a wheelchair or Bush on a horse?, I was born in a 3 room house, keep hope alive.
Democrats have completely betrayed the lofty ideals of Rev. Jackson. They are now a corrupt bunch of criminal elites who couldn’t care less about hardworking Americans.
What amazes me when rewatching speeches such as this is that back then, as a young adult, when racism was, truthfully, acceptable to so many of us, is that I never heard his words. Watching this now, I am so amazed by him and his words. It takes a long time to outgrow all the ignorances taught to us in our childhood. It is a never-ending battle, but we should never give up the fight. I love this speech!
For some reason, listening to this speech now gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. If anybody ever believed in the possibility and hope of America, it is Jesse.
I still turn to this speech to share with my children, to give them (and me) hope and motivation; to encourage them to never stop dreaming. #KeepHopeAlive
Undoubtedly one of the greatest convention speeches of the modern era. The brief interview I did with Rev. Jackson ranks among my fondest memories. He's the same man off stage as he is onstage. Thats rare. I wish him the best in his battle with Parkinson's.
Everything Jesse says has so much behind it. I always thought "there was a shovel programmed for my hand" is so profound. I wish I could hear an entire JJ speech on that.
Jesse came to my school a few years after this and I had to really struggle not to cry during his speech, his anaphora "they work everyday" and "I understand" is so moving... I was cheering my laptop when he roared "No, NO NO, they're not lazy and someone must defend them because it's right and because they cant speak for themselves." Arguably the most caring and progressive content of any politicians speech, give him credit!
This (and Cuomo's speech in 84) is how you give a convention speech. It builds and builds to a crescendo. From the Church. No need to shout until the end. Andrew Cuomo's speech tonight had great content, but you don't shout all the time. Build it up. Climax. Has me in tears every time (and I'm white by the way).
What an incredibly powerful inspiring man and a righteous man truly a saint a giant a beautiful soul a man of above all courage someone who loves to lift others up
this was in the 80's so the "war on drugs" was in full swing. When crack was destroying the black communities and coke, heroin was accepted in hollywood and music industry. When he speaks on drugs and saying to never surrender to them, I think the main train of thought was hard users.
When I talk to younger people now, they don't remember 1988. How could they - they were not born. I learned about Dr. Bethune and Roosevelt from my parents. We have to help younger people understand what the US is really supposed to be.
JESSE JACKSON - 1988 DNC Speech! "I understand. You see me on TV, but you don't know the me that 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 ad dress. My mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make it. You see, I was born of a teen-age mother, who was born of a teen-age 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 'til 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 [the] house. I really do understand. Born in a three-room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop jar 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 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. So many of the days she went to work early, with runs in her stockings. She knew better, but she wore runs in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school. I understand. At 3 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn't eat turkey because momma was preparing somebody else's turkey at 3 o'clock. We had to play football to entertain ourselves. And then around 6 o'clock she would get off the Alta Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey -- leftovers, the carcass, the cranberries -- around 8 o'clock 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're 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're qualified! And you hold on, and hold out! We must never surrender!! America will get better and better."
My grandparents, bathroom in the back yard, wood stove, all 8 of my aunts and uncles born “at” house” no hot and cold water. 5 uncles and my father in law that served in the military but denied GI benefits, redlined to the worst neighborhoods and lived in legal segregation. I understand.
I've seen him up close when no camera was there and when nobody showed up but Jessie was there speaking out for us " since day one of my time on this earth Jessie has always worked for us " He's been my guy for all my life ! Everybody else tuned out but Jessie stayed tuned in " People criticize him but he gets the benefit of the doubt from me . RUN JESSIE RUN
There is yet to be a better speech, maybe before and definitely since. Including Obama's, Reagan's or Clinton's. Just outstanding. You don't have to agree with Rev. Jackson to recognize this.
7:57 I always get a kick out of his "We had to play football to entertain ourselves" because it was on a football scholarship that Jesse got his education.
Debbie C I decode your message as "I cant tolerate having a black president, the nerve, hes so uppity and sassy, its driving me out of my mind seeing a black man who is so much better educated than me its like hes from another planet, everytime I turn on the tv I have to be reminded that there are black people who know so much more than me and one of them is actually the president of my white America!"
If youre having trouble +Jeff L why dont you draw on your experience in the military, imagine you went to fight the Nazis as a black GI and you were given condescending speeches about how you werent there to chase white girls among other insults and humiliation. Imagine you helped beat the Nazis and when you came home the black GIs exited the boat on a segregated ramp and road in segregated trains and your German-American fellow Americans could vote and go downtown and get a job. Draw on your experience as a businessman, imagine the government systematically discriminated against you in every aspect of your business from where you could buy or rent a shop to discriminatory loan practices to unfair building code enforcement to inadequate garbage pick-up and policing etc
Such as contrast! Full of enthusiasm and charisma! A far cry from how he is today; a bitter man of few words. of course, he knows he has to keep a low profile nowadays or else he'll wind up in prison for trying to bribe Governor Blagojevich to nominate Jesse Jr. to the Illinois Senate.
Well +Jeff L as a white guy who is not wholly oblivious to the ongoing history of race and racism in America I wish white folks like you would both learn something about this ongoing history and develop their emotional maturity so you could empathize. Do you understand what this means? It means learn about the countless awful things systematically done to black folks through slavery and Southern style Apartheid and the how the remnants of this rank racism combines with more nuanced contemporary racism to produce higher unemployment rates, inferior education, poorer health care, unfair outcomes with police and courts, unfair housing patterns. And it means spend some time imagining yourself into a black mans shoes who for example saw his grandparents treated like shit and heard family stories about how much worse it was for his great-grandparents, and who sees he has the odds against him in every facet of life AND knows that folks like you want to ignore these legitimate concerns and ludicrously chastize him not to ever foreground racism but always to submerge these concerns that are central to his life and instead only proudly talk about being an American as if Americans are a homogeneous group, as if blacks are treated fairly today or ever were in the past.
this is a bad-ass speech that rocks the shame of america in the 80's...remeber the contra trial with oliver north, the drug trade, and the high employment. plus, a lot of racial practices with a darken "o" on the application. keep hope alive...obama needs to study this...
I'm getting mixed signals on his drug policy opinion here...does anyone know what exactly it was then and if it has changed since? His "no first use" bit sounds a tad too "zero tolerance" for my liking.
Jesse's favorite book is "The Art of the Drive-By Shooting", co-written by south central L.A.'s very own: Rufus "Zigaboo" Zimbabwe and Leroy "I'm A Bad Man" Brown.
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Back when the Democratic Party even talked about the poor...now nobody below the middle class even gets mentioned.
7 years later and it’s even worse
Now even the middle class is being treated like shit.
Democrats have completely betrayed the lofty ideals of Rev. Jackson. They are now a corrupt bunch of criminal elites who couldn’t care less about hardworking Americans.
@@himalayanhealthhut6656 And Trump has caused more suffering as well.
@@himalayanhealthhut6656 they are now the party of the wealthy. How things have changed.
What amazes me when rewatching speeches such as this is that back then, as a young adult, when racism was, truthfully, acceptable to so many of us, is that I never heard his words. Watching this now, I am so amazed by him and his words. It takes a long time to outgrow all the ignorances taught to us in our childhood. It is a never-ending battle, but we should never give up the fight. I love this speech!
This is a beautiful and hopeful comment. Thank you for your goodness and God bless you 🙌
Good post.😎
I can see why Bernie liked this guy. Very powerful speaker and many good ideas.
Some days, this video is what keeps me going..
“I was born in the slums but no slum was born in me” - God what a speech
One of the greatest speeches in American History!
I saw him 2day
Yes, Frederick! Awesome speech 👍
A rhetoric masterpiece (I am a rhetorician and this is my favourite speech EVER)
This man SHOULD have been our President! He had my vote every time he ran.
You are an idiot. No need for further comment
@@johnnyyuma9326 Further comment needed.
@@johnnyyuma9326 fuck you, bloody moron
Even mine. In another country :)
"The only justification we have for looking down on someone is when we're gonna stop and help them up." is an all time favorite quote of mine
Great message.
For some reason, listening to this speech now gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. If anybody ever believed in the possibility and hope of America, it is Jesse.
When my name goes in nomination, your name goes goes in nomination. Brilliant. Love you Jesse.
“ I was born in the slum , but the slum was not born in me . It wasn’t born in you , and you can make it”
8:40
Say what you will about his character, politics, or personality...he can deliver a speech.
I still turn to this speech to share with my children, to give them (and me) hope and motivation; to encourage them to never stop dreaming.
#KeepHopeAlive
mrsm222 keep hope alive
i love his way of thinking and playing with words in a wonderful way. respect from algeria
I enjoyed this speech by the Great Jesse Jackson...brought tears to my eyes...heartfelt.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest convention speeches of the modern era. The brief interview I did with Rev. Jackson ranks among my fondest memories. He's the same man off stage as he is onstage. Thats rare. I wish him the best in his battle with Parkinson's.
Easily one of America's greatest speeches
One of the best speeches ever.
epic. I have Never forgotten this speech
God is good, Thank you pastor Jesse
I love that comment...."you don't know the me that makes me, me."
Jesse called for equal pay for Women, But the People Wanted Reagan Bush. 28 Years later And It is still an unresolved issue
BETTERWORLD SGT0589 women do have equal pay now...
@@elmerayala408 no they don't its a damned lie
@@elmerayala408 black women do not. 🤨 Do the research. White woken probably don’t either.
Everything Jesse says has so much behind it. I always thought "there was a shovel programmed for my hand" is so profound. I wish I could hear an entire JJ speech on that.
"I had a shovel programmed for my hand" is just so profound to me.
Jesse came to my school a few years after this and I had to really struggle not to cry during his speech, his anaphora "they work everyday" and "I understand" is so moving... I was cheering my laptop when he roared "No, NO NO, they're not lazy and someone must defend them because it's right and because they cant speak for themselves." Arguably the most caring and progressive content of any politicians speech, give him credit!
This (and Cuomo's speech in 84) is how you give a convention speech. It builds and builds to a crescendo. From the Church. No need to shout until the end. Andrew Cuomo's speech tonight had great content, but you don't shout all the time. Build it up. Climax. Has me in tears every time (and I'm white by the way).
😎...Mr. Jackson you sir inspired me. God Bless & Protect you Always!
Absolutely amazing 🙏🏾
Greatest Speech in history, The 1984 was one but this is it
MLK Jr. "I have a Dream" #1 Speech of All-time
This is the greatest Convention Speech.
Even though I dont agree with everything on this mans platform, he is an amazing speaker and orator. Very inspirational Jesse.
The whole speech is gold... but 8:13 and beyond got to me so much. Crying.
very great speech.very inspirational man, you are amazing!
Outstanding speech...
What an incredibly powerful inspiring man and a righteous man truly a saint a giant a beautiful soul a man of above all courage someone who loves to lift others up
this was in the 80's so the "war on drugs" was in full swing. When crack was destroying the black communities and coke, heroin was accepted in hollywood and music industry. When he speaks on drugs and saying to never surrender to them, I think the main train of thought was hard users.
I SAW THIS LIVE ON TV IN 1988, THE GREATEST.
are you dead already
I did too. And voted for him. Still turn to this speech and play it for my children for motivation.
When I talk to younger people now, they don't remember 1988. How could they - they were not born. I learned about Dr. Bethune and Roosevelt from my parents. We have to help younger people understand what the US is really supposed to be.
The best speech EVER
I love it when he says, KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
touching speech.i love jesse jackson!
Just as relevant today as that night.
Amazing.
A Legend
JESSE JACKSON - 1988 DNC Speech!
"I understand. You see me on TV, but you don't know the me that 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 ad
dress. My mama was not supposed to make it, and I was not supposed to make it. You see, I was born of a teen-age mother, who was born of a teen-age 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 'til 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 [the] house. I really do understand. Born in a three-room house, bathroom in the backyard, slop jar 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 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. So many of the days she went to work early, with runs in her stockings. She knew better, but she wore runs in her stockings so that my brother and I could have matching socks and not be laughed at at school. I understand.
At 3 o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, we couldn't eat turkey because momma was preparing somebody else's turkey at 3 o'clock. We had to play football to entertain ourselves. And then around 6 o'clock she would get off the Alta Vista bus and we would bring up the leftovers and eat our turkey -- leftovers, the carcass, the cranberries -- around 8 o'clock 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're 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're qualified! And you hold on, and hold out! We must never surrender!! America will get better and better."
Wonderfultouch Spa Homestead 305-389-1839 Point taken.
ill give you credit, you're persistent with the comment
keep hope alive
keep hope alive
JESSE ROCKS !!!!!!!!!
Return him to the convention 2012 !!!!!
My grandparents, bathroom in the back yard, wood stove, all 8 of my aunts and uncles born “at” house” no hot and cold water. 5 uncles and my father in law that served in the military but denied GI benefits, redlined to the worst neighborhoods and lived in legal segregation. I understand.
I've seen him up close when no camera was there and when nobody showed up but Jessie was there speaking out for us " since day one of my time on this earth Jessie has always worked for us " He's been my guy for all my life ! Everybody else tuned out but Jessie stayed tuned in " People criticize him but he gets the benefit of the doubt from me . RUN JESSIE RUN
Just listen and get the msg.
I don't agree with Rev. Jackson on much, but I have to say he is one of the most gifted speakers of our time.
There is yet to be a better speech, maybe before and definitely since. Including Obama's, Reagan's or Clinton's. Just outstanding. You don't have to agree with Rev. Jackson to recognize this.
I cried my heart out
Simply great.
Dude just bared himself on TV. Wow
Buffalo NY needs to hear this today.
Don't surrender, don't give up, Bernie.
I love how his speeches are like sermons.
7:57 I always get a kick out of his "We had to play football to entertain ourselves" because it was on a football scholarship that Jesse got his education.
Right on Jesse!
Coming to this especially now
I love after 8:41-ish so damn impressive and powerful
Wow Jesse! I was just 13 then...
Run again, Jesse.
No matter your politics, this is a patriot's speech and out to be required in high school history classes.
this is the best speach ever
Happy 76 Birthday Mr Jesse Jackson From Guyana .
My name is Sasha Adams .
so inspirational
We need more Effort!
From Martin Luther King Jr. to Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama
My heroes in Oration/Public Speaking
always do the right thing
Debbie C I decode your message as "I cant tolerate having a black president, the nerve, hes so uppity and sassy, its driving me out of my mind seeing a black man who is so much better educated than me its like hes from another planet, everytime I turn on the tv I have to be reminded that there are black people who know so much more than me and one of them is actually the president of my white America!"
Was this a speech or a sermon? Im surprised they didnt pass around a collection plate lol.
If ballots were mailed to people, I wonder how many more votes Jesse would have received.
Drugs, Pain,hope,imagination,dreams...... that’s what they sold us
He seemed sane back then, intelligent. Now Jesse Jackson is saying assault weapons can shoot down planes and blow up railroads.
If youre having trouble +Jeff L why dont you draw on your experience in the military, imagine you went to fight the Nazis as a black GI and you were given condescending speeches about how you werent there to chase white girls among other insults and humiliation. Imagine you helped beat the Nazis and when you came home the black GIs exited the boat on a segregated ramp and road in segregated trains and your German-American fellow Americans could vote and go downtown and get a job.
Draw on your experience as a businessman, imagine the government systematically discriminated against you in every aspect of your business from where you could buy or rent a shop to discriminatory loan practices to unfair building code enforcement to inadequate garbage pick-up and policing etc
Such as contrast! Full of enthusiasm and charisma! A far cry from how he is today; a bitter man of few words. of course, he knows he has to keep a low profile nowadays or else he'll wind up in prison for trying to bribe Governor Blagojevich to nominate Jesse Jr. to the Illinois Senate.
Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable
Powerful from outhouse to White House
Press CC and transcribe audio to see Jesse's speech transformed into dadaist haiku!
The crazy part is some of those folks at his speech voted for bush after all.
reagan wasn't on the ballot in 88
@@jbmuggins8815 bush i meant.
@cragar92 You mean 'dumb'? As Reverend Jackson says, don't surrender to illiteracy.
“Hold your head high stick your chest out you can make it.”
Well +Jeff L as a white guy who is not wholly oblivious to the ongoing history of race and racism in America I wish white folks like you would both learn something about this ongoing history and develop their emotional maturity so you could empathize.
Do you understand what this means?
It means learn about the countless awful things systematically done to black folks through slavery and Southern style Apartheid and the how the remnants of this rank racism combines with more nuanced contemporary racism to produce higher unemployment rates, inferior education, poorer health care, unfair outcomes with police and courts, unfair housing patterns.
And it means spend some time imagining yourself into a black mans shoes who for example saw his grandparents treated like shit and heard family stories about how much worse it was for his great-grandparents, and who sees he has the odds against him in every facet of life AND knows that folks like you want to ignore these legitimate concerns and ludicrously chastize him not to ever foreground racism but always to submerge these concerns that are central to his life and instead only proudly talk about being an American as if Americans are a homogeneous group, as if blacks are treated fairly today or ever were in the past.
Michel Foucault
Thanks brother wish there more of you
he would have been a real president....
jesse
Powerful. 45 could learn a lot from this speech!
Impossible, he’s not capable of learning unless it’s to help himself financially. That is his one and only goal in his sad life! Sad excuse for a man.
americans greatness oratory giant 😊
if only if this jesse was still around
What an amazing speaker. Definitely a better candidate than Dukakis was
SNL brought me here.
You see im running for the White House; but you don't see the house im running from.... Tears to my eyes......
jesse would cut them off if he had his way at least he said he wanted to on tv when he didnt know he was being recorded lol
Pray for this man. He has blood on his hands.
Love
"Keep hope alive" (and MO MONEY in my pocket)
this is a bad-ass speech that rocks the shame of america in the 80's...remeber the contra trial with oliver north, the drug trade, and the high employment. plus, a lot of racial practices with a darken "o" on the application. keep hope alive...obama needs to study this...
I'm getting mixed signals on his drug policy opinion here...does anyone know what exactly it was then and if it has changed since? His "no first use" bit sounds a tad too "zero tolerance" for my liking.
Jesse invented a new word: "Irrationable"...And then says "We shall never surrender to illiteracy!" Ha.
Jesse's favorite book is "The Art of the Drive-By Shooting", co-written by south central L.A.'s very own: Rufus "Zigaboo" Zimbabwe and Leroy "I'm A Bad Man" Brown.
What the h did jesse jackson say by Tim Conway
Cheesecake!