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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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I have an awfully good life.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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