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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Jesse Jackson

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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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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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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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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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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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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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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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