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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

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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Deliberation
Stir
Debate
Democracy
Politics
Political
Soul

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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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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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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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