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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

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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Entrepreneurship
Employment
Businesses
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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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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