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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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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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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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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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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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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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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