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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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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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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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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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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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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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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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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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