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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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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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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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