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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
Expansive
Inclusive
Arts
Art
Music

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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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No lie can live forever.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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