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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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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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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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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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