Clinton says Jackson made him a 'better president,' Harris, Sharpton also give eulogies

Описание: (6 Mar 2026)
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Chicago - 6 March 2026
1. Wide of audience at Jesse Jackson, Sr. memorial service
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network
"What happened to us? What happened to Black and Proud? What happened to 'I'm gonna vote?' What happened ain't gonna let nobody turn me around? What happened to us?"
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network
"We should do what Jesse Jackson did. Not look at what you can see, but look at you can believe even if you can't see it."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder, National Action Network
"If we do the right thing in the storm, if we organize, if register, if do what we're supposed to do, there's always a rainbow coming out. The rainbow don't show until the storm is over. The rainbow gonna come out in November, the rainbow going to come out in '28. We're going to fix these tricks in '26 and march through the gates in '28. We didn't come this far to turn around now. We won't go back, we won't go back, we won't go back."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former U.S. President
"We did not always agree, but I'll tell you one thing, he made me a better president when I got in office. Because he was always pushing on things, and he knew what change came from the outside in and sometimes from the inside out. So he knew how to keep pushing and nagging and wearing you out."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former U.S. President
"I'm here more as a friend than a former president. He was my friend when I needed him. And I ask you to ask yourselves how you can do more by being a better friend and a more effective one."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kamala Harris, Former U.S. Vice President
"You know, so let me just say, I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. (applause) I'm not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming. But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help us get through this."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kamala Harris, Former U.S. Vice President
"Jesse Jackson was a strategist. He was one of the most effective community and political organizers of our time."
9. Wide of audience at service
STORYLINE:
Former President Bill Clinton eulogized Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. as a man who made him a 'better president.'

"He knew change came from the outside in and sometimes from the inside out," Clinton said. "So he knew how to keep pushing and nagging and wearing you out," he said.

Clinton joined a parade of Democratic heavyweights who lauded the work of the civil righs leader and two time presidential aspirant. Rev. Al Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network and former Vice President Kamala Harris also remembered Jackson at Friday's memorial service.

Friday’s celebration — at an influential Black church with a 10,000-seat arena --
saw attendees waiting in long lines outside the church as television screens played excerpts of some of Jackson’s most famous speeches. Inside, vendors sold pins with his 1984 presidential slogan and hoodies with his “I Am Somebody” mantra.

Along with a slew of Illinois elected leaders, notable attendees included actor and producer Tyler Perry, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and political activist and theologian Cornel West. Detroit Pistons great and Chicago native Isiah Thomas was one of the speakers.


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