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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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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.
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No lie can live forever.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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