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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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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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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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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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