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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Jesse Jackson

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