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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

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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
Life
Burn
Bright
Quickly
Stars
Many

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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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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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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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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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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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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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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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