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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.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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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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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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