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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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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 fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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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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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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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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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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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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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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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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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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