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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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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
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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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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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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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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