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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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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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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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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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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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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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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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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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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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