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

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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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Comes
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Entrepreneurship
Employment
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Determination

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