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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

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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Coalitions
Jewish
Leaders
Conscience
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Black

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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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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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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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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've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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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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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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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 whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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