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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
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Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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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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