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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Jesse Jackson

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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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Jesse Louis Jackson
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