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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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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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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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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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