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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

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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Straight
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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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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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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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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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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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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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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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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