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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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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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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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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No lie can live forever.
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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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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
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