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I had to steal to survive.

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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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Survive
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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 white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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