POSTED BY MARTIN KICH

If blacks vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. It’s the only way progressive whites win. If blacks vote in great numbers, Hispanics win. If blacks, Hispanics and progressive whites vote, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, workers win. We must all come up together.

Jesse Jackson, 1984

The complete text of Rev. Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition speech, which he gave at the Democratic Party National Convention, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco in 1984, is available at: http://www.speeches-usa.com/Transcripts/jesse_jackson-rainbow.html.