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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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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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People always grow and mature.
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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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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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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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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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