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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.

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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