"There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
Jesse Jackson - As quoted in US News & World Report (10 March 1996) and The Boston Globe (5 September 2007 )
American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, who according to an AP - "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader".
Racist or does he have inside information? You decide.
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