"He helped us to ascend, from misery to hope, on the muscles of his arms and the meaning of his life." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson, from his eulogy for Jackie Robinson, Oct. 27, 1972
He steps gingerly and requires assistance.
His speech, at times, is halting.
But as he copes with Parkinson's disease, he's eager and insightful, expansive and inspiring.
Rev. Jesse Jackson is 80 now, a half century removed from his powerful eulogy for Jackie Robinson. And it's a quarter century since he returned to Riverside Church in New York, on ESPN's request, to revisit the passion and poignance of that homage.