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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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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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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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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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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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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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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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