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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.

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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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