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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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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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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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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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