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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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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
Unemployment
Lazy
Depression
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Whites
Political
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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