President Trump, Al Sharpton pay tribute to Jesse Jackson
發佈日期: 2026-02-18 21:05
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US President Donald Trump paid tribute to Jesse Jackson, calling him a "force of nature".
Harald Hall drops off some flowers at a house in Chicago where Jesse Jackson used to live. Among those who knew Jackson best were his friends and neighbours.
"I stayed in the neighbourhood," said Hall. "Reverend Jackson was one of the ones that would come out and shoot ball and try to change the minds of many of our young folk.
"And in many instances, it happened and worked."
A memorial was set up in the city.
US President Donald Trump, posting on social media, described Jackson as a "force of nature like few others before him" and sent condolences to his family.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres led the tributes.
"The Reverend Jackson lent his powerful voice to the UN's work against racism, against apartheid, and for human rights including taking part in a number of events here at UN headquarters," said Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric. "The Secretary-General extends his deepest condolences. To his families, his loved ones, his friends, as well as the government and the people of the United States."
Fellow civil rights campaigner and close friend, the Reverend Al Sharpton, was 13 years old when he first met Jackson.
"Jesse Jackson changed American politics," said Sharpton. "Jesse Jackson changed the civil rights movement. He was a consequential and transformative figure. So I'm not talking about somebody that just is some removed figure in history.
"He literally changed American politics, New York politics, and kept the civil rights movement going, and then raised some of us that have been in the forefront.
"When we did George Floyd, he was right there at the church with us when I did the eulogy. He was there with Trayvon Martin. He never stopped.
"He opened my eyes that we could make a difference, we could made change, that we could not be cynical."
