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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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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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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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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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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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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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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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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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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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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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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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