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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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People always grow and mature.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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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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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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