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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

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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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Reagan
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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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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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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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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I had to steal to survive.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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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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