Jesse Jackson has been capitalizing on MLK’s memory from the second he was shot.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WACH) — Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Good Day Columbia Tuesday morning and sat down for an interview.

Rev. Jackson was at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Rev. Jackson says he learned from Dr. King to keep pushing despite the odds.

“He challenged us to not let one kill the whole movement. So we move on and today we focus on something called poverty,” says Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Rev. Jackson says if Dr. King was alive he would have welcomed the Occupy Movement.

“He would embrace it. His last campaign was the poor peoples campaigns to go to Washington, occupy the mall and setup resurrection city,” says Rev. Jackson.

Rev. Jackson making his way through the Palmetto State spending time in Columbia and Greenville.