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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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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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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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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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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.
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