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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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