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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.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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