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“He introduced me to Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.”
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“Introduction copyright © 2026 by Al Sharpton.”
“Jesse understood that, too.”
“I became the youth director of Operation Breadbasket in New York not long after that.”
“It told me something about the power of moral seriousness.”
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“Keep hope alive.”
“This book spans the arc of one of the most consequential careers in American public life.”
“Reverend Jones saw it too.”
“Jesse had built Operation Breadbasket as the economic arm of Dr.”
“I also want to say something about his resilience, because Jesse Jackson faced criticism—some of it fair, some of it wildly unfair—across every decade of his public life.”
“Literary Hub » Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson “There are few in American history who stand taller.” Via Melville House Al Sharpton October 14, 2026 There is a moment in every young person’s life when they encounter someone who makes them believe that the world can be different—that they can be different—and nothing is ever the same again.”
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“But I want to say something about the man behind the movement, because history sometimes flattens people into their greatest hits and forgets what made them human.”
“When he stood at a pulpit or a podium, there was no seam between the sacred and the civic.”
“He is why I founded the National Action Network.”
“My mother saw something in me that she wanted shaped by serious men.”
“He was young himself, by the standards of movement leadership, but he carried himself with a gravitas that seemed ancient, as if he had been forged in some furnace the rest of us hadn’t yet been near.”
“Jesse had already shown me what it looked like to stand somewhere you were not invited, to refuse the limits other people set for you.”