Sen. Warnock: Rev. Jesse Jackson ‘Gave Me a Glimpse of What’s Possible and Convinced Me that I Am Somebody’

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WARNOCK: “Not only was he a public figure for me and millions of others, he was a larger-than-life figure. A living and breathing civil rights and human rights superhero who captured my imagination as a young kid growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. I knew early on that I would go into ministry, and his was the kind of public ministry that I sought to emulate even as a teenager. I remember hearing him in the high school gym when he came to my hometown of Savannah, Georgia. Here I was growing up in public housing, and I remember walking down the street to the Savannah Civic Center to hear Jesse Jackson. This man was running for president. He gave me a glimpse of what is possible and convinced me that I am somebody.”