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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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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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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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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 have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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People always grow and mature.
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