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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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Life
Burn
Bright
Quickly

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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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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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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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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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