By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Today America will choose those who will lead us over the next years. We will make a choice.
Your first choice is to vote. Exercise your power. If you choose not to vote, you cede your power to others. The right to vote has been won through years of struggle. When this republic was born, African Americans, women, the young and the working class could not vote. Only white, male landowners had the right. It took decades, a Civil War, demonstrations, martyrs and sacrifice to extend the right to vote. Do not spurn the sacrifice that others made so that we could exercise this power.
