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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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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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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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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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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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