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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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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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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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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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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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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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