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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
Politics
Freedom
Political
Minority
Organize
Minorities
Organized
Majority
Democracy

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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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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
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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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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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No lie can live forever.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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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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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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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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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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