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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
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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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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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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 the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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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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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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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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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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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] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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