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

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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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Soul
Way
Deliberation
Stir
Debate
Democracy
Politics

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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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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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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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