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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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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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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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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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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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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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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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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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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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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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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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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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