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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
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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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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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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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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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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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