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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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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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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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