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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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Minorities
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Democracy
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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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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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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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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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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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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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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[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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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