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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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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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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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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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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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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