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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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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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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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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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People always grow and mature.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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