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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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People always grow and mature.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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