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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

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
Jewish
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Worked
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Black
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No lie can live forever.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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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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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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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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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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