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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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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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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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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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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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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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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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I had to steal to survive.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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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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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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