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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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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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