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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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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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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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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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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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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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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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