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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
Human Rights Activist
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Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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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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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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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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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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