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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

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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Democracy
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Freedom
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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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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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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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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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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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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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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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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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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