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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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