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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

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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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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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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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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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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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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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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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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