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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

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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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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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