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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.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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