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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

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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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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
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