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

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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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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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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him 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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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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