Jesse Jackson: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jesse Jackson said elsewhere, not written here

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗

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Alison Steadman British actress

Not making a movie with Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

Anna Friel English actress

Getting down to the last two of certain jobs (Gangs Of New York and Fight Club) and being thwarted at the last second.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

Suzanne Vega American singer-songwriter

How little money really changes things. It buys doctors but not health, clothes but not taste, makeup but not beauty. When I was young and didn’t have anything, I imagined money had more power.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2017 source ↗

Archie Panjabi British actress